TY - GEN
T1 - Optimization of antenna polarization of the multistatic GPR system "Yakumo"
AU - Sato, M.
AU - Yi, L.
AU - Iitsuka, Y.
AU - Zou, L.
AU - Takahashi, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank cooperation of prefectural police office of Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate. This work is supported by the special grant by Tohoku University President. This work was supported by Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, "Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), Infrastructure Maintenance, Renovation, and Management", (funding agency: NEDO), and by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 26249058.
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© 2016 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/9/20
Y1 - 2016/9/20
N2 - We have developed 8Ch array GPR system "Yakumo" and have demonstrated the performance of the multistatic radar. At first, the effect of the antenna polarization and the antenna spacing to GPR signal in the multistatic GPR system was evaluated by a laboratory experiment. Using this multistatic GPR system, we can estimate the vertical profile of the electromagnetic wave velocity by CMP method at every position while operating the system along a survey line. However, in order to improve the quality of the CMP data, antenna polarization should be perpendicular to the direction of the survey line, which is 90 degree rotated from conventional GPR measurements. We found that this arrangement may decrease the quality of B-scan of GPR data. We then rotated the antenna polarization, so that the antenna polarization can be set perpendicular to the direction of survey. The B-scan quality was improved, but CMP data quality was decreased. Meanwhile, we have not observed much difference in C-scan images.
AB - We have developed 8Ch array GPR system "Yakumo" and have demonstrated the performance of the multistatic radar. At first, the effect of the antenna polarization and the antenna spacing to GPR signal in the multistatic GPR system was evaluated by a laboratory experiment. Using this multistatic GPR system, we can estimate the vertical profile of the electromagnetic wave velocity by CMP method at every position while operating the system along a survey line. However, in order to improve the quality of the CMP data, antenna polarization should be perpendicular to the direction of the survey line, which is 90 degree rotated from conventional GPR measurements. We found that this arrangement may decrease the quality of B-scan of GPR data. We then rotated the antenna polarization, so that the antenna polarization can be set perpendicular to the direction of survey. The B-scan quality was improved, but CMP data quality was decreased. Meanwhile, we have not observed much difference in C-scan images.
KW - CMP
KW - GPR
KW - Multistatic GPR
KW - Yakumo. Antenna polarization
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U2 - 10.1109/ICGPR.2016.7572664
DO - 10.1109/ICGPR.2016.7572664
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84992166383
T3 - Proceedings of 2016 16th International Conference of Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2016
BT - Proceedings of 2016 16th International Conference of Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 16th International Conference of Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2016
Y2 - 13 June 2016 through 16 June 2016
ER -