A high-resolution and light-weight impulse radar has been developed for short range detection of subsurface objects and interfaces. This radar can be used as a hand-held instrument or it can be mounted on a vehicle. The new radar is optimized for fairly short measuring distances (about 2 m) with good accuracy (few centimetres). Modern data processing and display technology has been used in order to reduce the power consumption and physical size of the instrument. The radar has proved to be very useful in ice thickness measurements. For safety reasons it is essential to measure continuous profiles of the ice thickness and to find the weak spots in order to avoid vehicles to sink through the ice. The impulse radar measures a continuous profile of ice thickness without any conventional methods, e.g. by drilling holes in ice and measuring the thickness with a scale stick.


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    Title :

    A Portable Radar for Ice Thickness Measurements


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    1994 Subzero Engineering Conditions Conference and Exposition ; 1994



    Publication date :

    1994-02-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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