Detection of buried objects such as landmines using a forward impulse radiating antenna (IRA)

Author

Teggatz, A. ; J?¶stingmeier, A. ; Meyer, T. ; Omar, A.S.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Signal Process. & Commun., Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany

fYear

2005

Firstpage

627

Abstract

A novel forward impulse radiating antenna (IRA) is presented. The design of this antenna has been optimized for the detection of buried objects using the 3D field simulator Microwave Studio (MWS). The antenna yields images of subsurface objects with outstanding resolution when an appropriate calibration technique is applied. This technique locates the reference plane inside the ground and therefore allows the air-ground reflection and antenna mismatch and losses to be removed. A prototype of the new forward impulse radiating antenna has already been constructed and preliminary experimental results are presented.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; buried object detection; computational electromagnetics; ground penetrating radar; microwave antennas; radar antennas; radar imaging; radar resolution; 1 to 5 GHz; GPR; Microwave Studio 3D field simulator; air-ground reflection; antenna losses; antenna mismatch; buried object detection; forward impulse radiating antenna; ground penetrating radar; landmine detection; radiation pattern; reference plane; subsurface object images; Antenna feeds; Arm; Buried object detection; Calibration; Dielectric materials; Ground penetrating radar; Impedance matching; Landmine detection; Permittivity; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2005 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8883-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2005.1551889

Filename

1551889