Wide-band ground-penetrating radar portable data acquisition system

Charles A. Amazeen

doi:10.1117/12.211295

20 June 1995 Wide-band ground-penetrating radar portable data acquisition system

Charles A. Amazeen

Proceedings Volume 2496, Detection Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.211295
Event: SPIE's 1995 Symposium on OE/Aerospace Sensing and Dual Use Photonics, 1995, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Evaluating performance of microwave-based handheld mine detection sensors has until recently been limited to using tethered test carts instrumented with a network analyzer and computer controller. The Army's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate's (NVESD) Mine Detection Division has completed the development of a versatile portable data acquisition system (DAS) enabling researchers to simulate handheld mine detection systems and to evaluate mine detection antennas from 500 MHz to 2000 MHz. The data that is collected by the DAS is in the form of the complex S₂₁ and S₁₁ scattering parameters and includes sensor head position. System software is in a data collection instrument useful for evaluating the performance of detection algorithms and antennas, or as a fully operational handheld mine detector brassboard. Described in this paper are the technologies comprising the DAS, a detailed system description, and results from an experimental effort using the separated aperture antenna mine detection technique to measure the performance of the DAS in an outdoor environment.

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Charles A. Amazeen "Wide-band ground-penetrating radar portable data acquisition system", Proc. SPIE 2496, Detection Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets, (20 June 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.211295

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