Full-waveform modeling of ground-coupled GPR antennas for wave propagation in multilayered media: The problem solved ?

Proceedings of the 13th Internarional Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lambot, S ^a,b   Andre F ^b   Jadoon, K Z ^b   Slob, E C ^c   Vereecken, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antenna modeling; Green's functions; Ground penetrating radar; Multilayered media

Indexed keywords

900 MHZ; ANTENNA APERTURE; ANTENNA MODELING; BACK-SCATTERED; CENTRE FREQUENCY; COMPUTATION TIME; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; FAR-FIELD; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GPR ANTENNA; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND RADARS; LAYERED MEDIUM; LINEAR RELATION; MULTI-LAYERED MEDIA; NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENT; RADAR DATA; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; SINGLE POINT SOURCE; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TRANSMISSION LINE; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM MODELING;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956533703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGPR.2010.5550146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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