Polarimetric analysis of ground penetrating radar (GPR) backscatter offers a new means of discriminating subsurface metallic target shapes from one another. Such discrimination is urgently needed to distinguish buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) from other subsurface objects. To illuminate the underlying phenomenology of scattering from objects enveloped in soil, three-dimensional (3D) simulations are performed over a broad frequency band, characteristic of new low frequency GPRs. For moist soil, this means that the subsurface wavelength may range from a fraction of the target size to an order of magnitude larger With a transmitting antenna representation that produces typical subsurface GPR beam features, combined effects of positional, orientation, and frequency diversity are investigated. Despite long wavelengths, results show distinctive features in reflections obtained from contrasting example target shapes. Full polarimetric analysis suggests the capability for inferring the length of elongated targets, aspect ratio and rotational symmetry, and gross shape along the axis for either elongated or flattened bodies of revolution in problematical orientations.
Discrimination of UXO in soil using broadband polarimetric GPR backscatter
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ; 39 , 2 ; 356-367
2001
12 Seiten, 25 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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