Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is one of the common sensor system used for underground inspection which emits electromagnetic waves that can pass through objects. The reflecting waves are recorded and digitized, and then, the images are formed. According to the properties of scanning object, GPR creates higher or lower intensity values on the object regions. Thus, these changes in signal repres...

The monostatic VV and HH-polarized radar signatures of several targets and trees have been measured at foliage penetration frequencies (VHF/UHF) by using 1/35th scale models and an indoor radar range operating at X-band. An array of high-fidelity scale model ground vehicles and test objects as well as scaled ground terrain and trees have been fabricated for the study. Radar measurement accuracy...

abstract obtaining reliable precipitation observations is important for hydrological simulations and weather forecasting. radar data can provide insight in the spatial variation of precipitation and can also detect large areas of rain and estimate rainfall rates. weather radar systems nearly always operate in s-, c- or x-band. since x-band systems require smaller antennas than those at c- or s-...

Fully polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (polSAR) data analysis has wide applications for terrain and ground cover classification. SAR technology, due to its high spatial resolution and soil penetration capability, is a good choice to identify problematic areas on earthen levees. In this paper, using the entropy (H), alpha angle ( ), and eigenvalue parameters (λ), we implemented several unsu...

Since the first spacecraft-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mission NASA’s SEASAT in 1978 radars have been flown in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) by other national space agencies including the Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, India Space Research Organization and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. Improvements in electronics, miniaturization and production have allowed for the ...

Bridge decks deteriorate over time as a result of freezing-and-thawing, heavy use, and water penetration resulting in internal defects. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) can be used as a non-destructive method for detecting such defects. Unfortunately, reflections from closely spaced objects overlap which prevents the accurate estimation of the round-trip travel time of GPR waves to the closely sp...

UltraWideband (UWB) systems have been utilized and commercialized since the beginning of the 1970s and have been successfully used in ground-, walland foliage-penetration, collision warning and avoidance, fluid level detection, intruder detection and vehicle radar and also for the topics of the intended research project, communication and position-location [1]. Up to now, the latter two fields ...