Design of Ground Penetrating Radar antenna for buried object detection

Author

Karim, M.N.A. ; Malek, M.F.A. ; Jamlos, M.F. ; Seng, L.Y. ; Saudin, Norshafinash

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Arau, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

257

Abstract

In this paper, the design of planar antenna for use in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for buried object detection is presented. The proposed antenna offers wide operational bandwidth within 500 MHz to 2 GHz frequency band. This property makes the antenna suitable for the application of GPR for buried object detection. Taconic TLY-5 is used as the substrate with dielectric constant of 2.2, tangent loss of 0.0009 and thickness of 1.57 mm. The proposed antenna has simple structure and fully planar, therefore it is easy to integrate with other planar devices. To obtain a directional radiation pattern, the antenna is placed inside an open metallic shielded box. In turn, the gain of the antenna is also increased using this approach. The results in term of reflection coefficient, gain, radiation pattern of the antenna are discussed in this paper.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; buried object detection; directive antennas; ground penetrating radar; permittivity; planar antennas; radar antennas; radar imaging; GPR planar antenna design; Taconic TLY-5; antenna gain; buried object detection; dielectric constant; directional radiation pattern; frequency 500 MHz to 2 GHz; ground penetrating radar antenna design; open metallic shielded box; planar devices; reflection coefficient; substrate; tangent loss; Antenna radiation patterns; Ground penetrating radar; Radar antennas; Reflector antennas; Antenna; GPR; Ground Penetrating Radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Microwave Conference (RFM), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2213-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFM.2013.6757260

Filename

6757260