A novel, compact, low-cost, impulse ground-penetrating radar for nondestructive evaluation of pavements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1502-1509

  Lee, Jeong Soo ^a   Nguyen, Cam ^b   Scullion, Thomas ^c  

^a Filtronic Compound Semiconductors   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Pulse transmitter; Sampling receiver; Surface penetrating radar; Ultra wide band (UWB) radar; UWB antenna

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PAVEMENTS; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; RADAR ANTENNAS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

PULSE TRANSMITTER; SAMPLING RECEIVER; SURFACE PENETRATING RADAR; ULTRAWIDEBAND ANTENNA; ULTRAWIDEBAND RADAR;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 10244229112     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.827308     Document Type: Article

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