An FM-CW radar system for the detection of objects buried in sandy ground is explored and is applied to a field measurement. The key factors for underground FM-CW radar performance are the center frequency and bandwidth determining the depth at which the radar can detect targets and the resolution in the range direction. In order for FM-CW radar sounding, two ridged horn antennas are employed in the system, which are operative in the frequency range of 250-1000MHz. The impedance matching to the ground is optimized by measuring the echo strength from a fixed target as a function of the spacing interval between the antenna aperture and the ground surface. It is shown that the radar with an output power of 18dBm could detect a metallic plate (30
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Yoshio YAMAGUCHI, Masakazu SENGOKU, "Detection of Objects Buried in Sandy Ground by a Synthetic Aperture FM-CW Radar" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications,
vol. E76-B, no. 10, pp. 1297-1304, October 1993, doi: .
Abstract: An FM-CW radar system for the detection of objects buried in sandy ground is explored and is applied to a field measurement. The key factors for underground FM-CW radar performance are the center frequency and bandwidth determining the depth at which the radar can detect targets and the resolution in the range direction. In order for FM-CW radar sounding, two ridged horn antennas are employed in the system, which are operative in the frequency range of 250-1000MHz. The impedance matching to the ground is optimized by measuring the echo strength from a fixed target as a function of the spacing interval between the antenna aperture and the ground surface. It is shown that the radar with an output power of 18dBm could detect a metallic plate (30
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