A multi antenna ultra wideband ground penetrating radar system using arbitrary waveforms

Author

Eide, Egil S. ; Hjelmstad, Jens F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun., Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim, Norway

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1746

Abstract

This paper describes a prototype ultra wideband ground penetrating radar system (RadioStar) that operates in the frequency range from 0.1-3400 MHz using digitally generated arbitrary waveforms and an innovative up-conversion scheme. The radar system includes a specially designed broadband monopole antenna array with electronic scanning of the elements for efficient 3D imaging of the subsurface

Keywords

antenna arrays; geology; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; radar antennas; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; terrain mapping; terrestrial electricity; 0.1 to 3400 MHz; 3D imaging; HF; RadioStar; SHF; UHF; VHF; arbitrary waveform; broadband monopole antenna array; buried object detection; electronic scanning; geoelectric method; geophysical measurement technique; ground penetrating radar; land surface; multi antenna ultra wideband system; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; subsurface; terrain mapping; terrestrial electricity; three dimensional radar; up-conversion scheme; Antenna arrays; Broadband antennas; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; High-resolution imaging; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Signal generators; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.772082

Filename

772082