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Modelling and Simulation Resolution of Ground-Penetrating Radar Antennas

  • Alsharahi, G. (Department of Physic, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University) ;
  • Mostapha, A. Mint Mohamed (Department of Physic, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University) ;
  • Faize, A. (Department of Physic, Faculty Polydisiplinarly, Mohammed 1st University) ;
  • Driouach, A. (Department of Physic, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University)
  • Received : 2016.03.24
  • Accepted : 2016.07.12
  • Published : 2016.07.31
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Abstract

The problem of resolution in antenna ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is very important for the investigation and detection of buried targets. We should solve this problem with software or a numeric method. The purposes of this paper are the modelling and simulation resolution of antenna radar GPR using three antennas, arrays (as in the software REFLEXW), the antenna dipole (as in GprMax2D), and a bow-tie antenna (as in the experimental results). The numeric code has been developed for study resolution antennas by scattered electric fields in mode B-scan. Three frequency antennas (500, 800, and 1,000 MHz) have been used in this work. The simulation results were compared with experimental results obtained by Rial and colleagues under the same conditions.

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