Portable and Easily-Deployable Air-Launched GPR Scanner
In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)-based Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems have been developed due to their advantages for safe and fast detection of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines. The complexity of these systems requires performing extensive measurement campaig...
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| author | María García-Fernández Yuri Álvarez López Alessandro De Mitri David Castrillo Martínez Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi Fernando Las-Heras Andrés |
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| description | In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)-based Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems have been developed due to their advantages for safe and fast detection of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines. The complexity of these systems requires performing extensive measurement campaigns in order to test their performance and detection capabilities. However, UAV flights are limited by weather conditions and battery autonomy. To overcome these problems, this contribution presents a portable and easily-deployable measurement setup which can be used as a testbed for the assessment of the capabilities of the airborne system. In particular, the proposed portable measurement setup replicates fairly well the conditions faced by the airborne system, which can hardly be reproduced in indoor GPR measurement facilities. Three validation examples are presented: the first two analyze the capability of the measurement setup to conduct experiments in different scenarios (loamy and sandy soils). The third example focuses on the problem of antenna phase center displacement with frequency and its impact on GPR imaging, proposing a simple technique to correct it. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85ad8c4fe65947e3b2254976bc07e4422023-11-20T03:00:19ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922020-06-011211183310.3390/rs12111833Portable and Easily-Deployable Air-Launched GPR ScannerMaría García-Fernández0Yuri Álvarez López1Alessandro De Mitri2David Castrillo Martínez3Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi4Fernando Las-Heras Andrés5Area of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Oviedo, 33201–33212 Gijon, SpainArea of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Oviedo, 33201–33212 Gijon, SpainDepartment of Geoscience, University of Pisa, 56121–56128 Pisa, ItalyArea of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Oviedo, 33201–33212 Gijon, SpainArea of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Oviedo, 33201–33212 Gijon, SpainArea of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Oviedo, 33201–33212 Gijon, SpainIn recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)-based Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems have been developed due to their advantages for safe and fast detection of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines. The complexity of these systems requires performing extensive measurement campaigns in order to test their performance and detection capabilities. However, UAV flights are limited by weather conditions and battery autonomy. To overcome these problems, this contribution presents a portable and easily-deployable measurement setup which can be used as a testbed for the assessment of the capabilities of the airborne system. In particular, the proposed portable measurement setup replicates fairly well the conditions faced by the airborne system, which can hardly be reproduced in indoor GPR measurement facilities. Three validation examples are presented: the first two analyze the capability of the measurement setup to conduct experiments in different scenarios (loamy and sandy soils). The third example focuses on the problem of antenna phase center displacement with frequency and its impact on GPR imaging, proposing a simple technique to correct it.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/11/1833ground penetrating radarsynthetic aperture radarimaginglandmineunmanned aerial vehicles |
| spellingShingle | María García-Fernández Yuri Álvarez López Alessandro De Mitri David Castrillo Martínez Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi Fernando Las-Heras Andrés Portable and Easily-Deployable Air-Launched GPR Scanner Remote Sensing ground penetrating radar synthetic aperture radar imaging landmine unmanned aerial vehicles |
| title | Portable and Easily-Deployable Air-Launched GPR Scanner |
| title_full | Portable and Easily-Deployable Air-Launched GPR Scanner |
| title_fullStr | Portable and Easily-Deployable Air-Launched GPR Scanner |
| title_full_unstemmed | Portable and Easily-Deployable Air-Launched GPR Scanner |
| title_short | Portable and Easily-Deployable Air-Launched GPR Scanner |
| title_sort | portable and easily deployable air launched gpr scanner |
| topic | ground penetrating radar synthetic aperture radar imaging landmine unmanned aerial vehicles |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/11/1833 |
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