Comparison of three wideband antennas for ground-penetrating radar

William W. Clark; Brian Burns; Elvis Dieguez; James M. Ralston

doi:10.1117/12.541123

21 September 2004 Comparison of three wideband antennas for ground-penetrating radar

William W. Clark, Brian Burns, Elvis Dieguez, James M. Ralston

Proceedings Volume 5415, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets IX; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541123
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has been applied for several years to the problem of detecting both anti-personnel and anti-tank landmines. Most of the evaluation effort has focused on obtaining the end-to-end performance metrics (e.g. Pd and pfa ) of complete detection systems. This is the fourth in a series of papers in which we focus on the specific performance of one critical component of GPR systems: the antenna subsystem. In this paper, we examine several free-space characteristics of 3 prototype wideband antennas, here denoted by the terms: Resistive Vee , Antipodal Vivaldi, and Planning Systems Inc's (PSI) Archimedean Spiral antennas. Specifically, we (1) determine gain and phase properties of these antennas, (2) measure the internal reflections, (3) determine the direct coupling between antennas used in bistatic pairs, (4) measure antenna reflectivity, and (5) measure the spatial response footprints.

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William W. Clark, Brian Burns, Elvis Dieguez, and James M. Ralston "Comparison of three wideband antennas for ground-penetrating radar", Proc. SPIE 5415, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets IX, (21 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541123

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