Propagation velocity uncertainty on GPR SAR processing

To detect buried landmines, Planning Systems Incorporated (PSI) has developed a ground-penetrating synthetic aperture radar (GPSAR) system. Since the electromagnetic wave propagation velocity in the soil depends on many factors, velocity uncertainty is inevitable. However, we have observed that, unl...

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Published inIEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 849 - 861
Main Authors Renbiao Wu, Kunlong Gu, Li, Jian, Bradley, M., Habersat, J., Maksymonko, G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.07.2003
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Air traffic control
Aircraft components
Electromagnetic waves
Electronic systems
Ground penetrating radar
Landmine detection
Night vision
Process planning
Propagation velocity
Radar
Radar detection
Robustness
Soil
Spaceborne radar
Synthetic aperture radar
Uncertainty
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Summary:To detect buried landmines, Planning Systems Incorporated (PSI) has developed a ground-penetrating synthetic aperture radar (GPSAR) system. Since the electromagnetic wave propagation velocity in the soil depends on many factors, velocity uncertainty is inevitable. However, we have observed that, unlike conventional airborne/spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, the PSI GPSAR system is very robust against the velocity uncertainty under mild conditions. Theoretical analysis is provided to explain this observation. Although our discussion is based on the PSI GPSAR system, it applies to other GPR-based (ground-penetrating radar) landmine detection systems as well.
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ISSN:0018-9251
1557-9603
DOI:10.1109/TAES.2003.1238741