Imaging Study for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Mounted Ground-Penetrating Radar: Part 1 - Methodology and Analytic Formulation
Abstract
This report is the first part of an investigation of possible configurations for a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system installed on a small unmanned aerial vehicle platform and used for buried target imaging. After discussing the advantages of this type of platform compared with existing designs, we develop the tools needed to analyze the imaging performance of the proposed system. This is done primarily by simulating the point spread function (PSF) of the system working in either down-looking or side-looking configuration and horizontal-horizontal or vertical-vertical polarization. The current work lays the theoretical foundations and describes the methodology employed in the GPR imaging systems performance analysis, discussing the calculation of the point target response, the formulation of the imaging algorithm, and the equations employed in the PSF numeric models.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1069297
Entities
People
- Traian Dogaru
Organizations
- United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command