Analysis of horn antenna transfer functions and phase-center position for modeling off-ground GPR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1649-1662

  Jadoon, Khan Zaib ^a   Lambot, Sébastien ^a   Slob, Evert C ^b   Vereecken, Harry ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antenna modeling; antenna phase center; frequency dependence; ground penetrating radar (GPR)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; HORN ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ANTENNA MODELLING; ANTENNA PHASE CENTER; ANTENNA TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCIES DEPENDENCE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR; PHASE CENTER; TRANSFER FUNCTION MODELING; TRANSFER PHASE; ZERO OFFSETS;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTENNA; ELECTRIC FIELD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HORN; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; THRESHOLD;

EID: 79955598847     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2089691     Document Type: Review

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