Adaptive wire bow-tie antenna for GPR applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1745-1754

  Lestari, Andrian Andaya ^a   Yarovoy, Alexander G ^a   Ligthart, Leo P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive antenna; Bow tie antenna; Ground penetrating radar (GPR) antenna; Wire antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIODES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNA; BOW TIE ANTENNA; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR) ANTENNA; WIRE ANTENNA;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 19144362569     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.846726     Document Type: Article

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