Microwave tomography enhanced Forward Looking GPR: A feasibility analysis

Author

Catapano, I. ; Soldovieri, F. ; Gonzalez-Huici, M.A.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Electromagn. Sensing of the Environ., Naples, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

June 30 2014-July 4 2014

Firstpage

964

Lastpage

968

Abstract

Vehicle mounted Forward Looking Ground Penetrating Radar systems are an attractive technology in a large number of civil and military applications that bring new challenges to both hardware design and data processing approaches. In this paper, a microwave tomographic reconstruction technique has been adapted to fulfill the requirements of this particular measurement setup. Such approach is a model based imaging procedure, which exploits the Born Approximation to represent the scattering phenomenon and accounts for the air-soil interface. A preliminary assessment of the achievable imaging capabilities is given by processing synthetic data.

Keywords

data communication; electromagnetic wave scattering; ground penetrating radar; image reconstruction; microwave imaging; radar imaging; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; tomography; air-soil interface; born approximation; civil application; hardware design; microwave tomographic reconstruction technique; military application; model based imaging procedure; scattering phenomenon; synthetic data processing; vehicle mounted forward looking ground penetrating radar system; Magnetic domains; Microwave measurement; Scattering; Time-domain analysis; Tomography; Forward Looking Radar; Ground Penetrating Radar; Inverse Scattering; Microwave Tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), 2014 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brussels

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGPR.2014.6970570

Filename

6970570