Antenna characteristics and air-ground interface deembedding  methods for stepped-frequency ground-penetrating radar                measurements

Brian Karlsen; Jan Larsen; Kaj Bjarne Jakobsen; Helge Bjarup Dissing Sørensen; Staffan Abrahamson

doi:10.1117/12.396230

Antenna characteristics and air-ground interface deembedding methods for stepped-frequency ground-penetrating radar measurements

Brian Karlsen
, Jan Larsen
, Kaj Bjarne Jakobsen
, Helge Bjarup Dissing Sørensen
, Staffan Abrahamson

National Defence Research Establishment

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The result from field-tests using a Stepped-Frequency Ground Penetrating Radar (SF-GPR) and promising antenna and air-ground deembedding methods for a SF-GPR is presented. A monostatic S-band rectangular waveguide antenna was used in the field-tests. The advantages of the SF-GPR, e.g., amplitude and phase information in the SF-GPR signal, is used to deembed the characteristics of the antenna. We propose a new air-to-ground interface deembedding technique based on Principal Component Analysis which enables enhancement of the SF-GPR signal from buried objects, e.g., anti-personal landmines. The methods are successfully evaluated on field-test data obtained from measurements on a large-scale in-door test field.

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	4038
Pages (from-to)	1420-30
ISSN	0277-786X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396230
Publication status	Published - 2000

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Antenna characteristics and air-ground interface deembedding methods for stepped-frequency ground-penetrating radar measurements. / Karlsen, Brian; Larsen, Jan; Jakobsen, Kaj Bjarne et al.
In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 4038, 2000, p. 1420-30.

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