A Comparison of Solid and Loaded Bowtie Antennas in GPR for the Detection of Buried Landmines

Wouter Van Verre; Frank J.W. Podd; Yee M. Tan; Xianyang Gao; Anthony J. Peyton

doi:10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441605

A Comparison of Solid and Loaded Bowtie Antennas in GPR for the Detection of Buried Landmines

Wouter Van Verre, Frank J.W. Podd, Yee M. Tan, Xianyang Gao, Anthony J. Peyton

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison between solid and resisitively loaded bowtie antennas in GPR applications for the purpose of finding buried landmines. The resistively-loaded antennas were first evaluated over dry sand in a laboratory-based experiment with a landmine surrogate. Further testing, comparing the performance of the loaded antennas to that of solid bowtie antennas, was performed over real soil, with a real landmine. Using the loaded bowtie antennas, the system got a response from the target in the indoor experiment but not in the outdoor experiment. The system did detect the buried landmine in the outdoor experiment when using the solid bowtie antennas. It is likely that the losses in the real soil were too high compared to the losses in dry sand for the system to be able to get a response using loaded antennas. The GPR system tested in this paper forms part of a dual-modality system for humanitarian demining applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Print)	9781538657775
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441605
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2018
Event	17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar - Rapperswil, Switzerland Duration: 18 Jun 2018 → 21 Jun 2018

Publication series

Name	2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar
Abbreviated title	GPR 2018
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Rapperswil
Period	18/06/18 → 21/06/18

Access to Document

10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441605

Electromagnetic Sensing Group
Peyton, A., Fletcher, A., Daniels, D., Conniffe, D., Cheadle, E., Podd, F., Xu, H., Tesfalem, H., Davidson, J., Anderson, J., Tang, J., Hampton, J., Wilson, J., Barratt, K., Marsh, L., Chen, L., O'Toole, M., Lu, M., Ran, Q., Huang, R., Watson, S., Ozdeger, T., Van Verre, W., Yin, W., Gao, X., Tao, Y., Chen, Z., Regan, A., Li, J. & Cheng, Q.
1/10/04 → …
Project: Research

Cite this

Van Verre, W., Podd, F. J. W., Tan, Y. M., Gao, X., & Peyton, A. J. (2018). A Comparison of Solid and Loaded Bowtie Antennas in GPR for the Detection of Buried Landmines. In 2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018 Article 8441605 (2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441605

@inproceedings{dcb07fb18b3c48588cb25e74ba073a86,

title = "A Comparison of Solid and Loaded Bowtie Antennas in GPR for the Detection of Buried Landmines",

abstract = "This paper presents a comparison between solid and resisitively loaded bowtie antennas in GPR applications for the purpose of finding buried landmines. The resistively-loaded antennas were first evaluated over dry sand in a laboratory-based experiment with a landmine surrogate. Further testing, comparing the performance of the loaded antennas to that of solid bowtie antennas, was performed over real soil, with a real landmine. Using the loaded bowtie antennas, the system got a response from the target in the indoor experiment but not in the outdoor experiment. The system did detect the buried landmine in the outdoor experiment when using the solid bowtie antennas. It is likely that the losses in the real soil were too high compared to the losses in dry sand for the system to be able to get a response using loaded antennas. The GPR system tested in this paper forms part of a dual-modality system for humanitarian demining applications.",

author = "{Van Verre}, Wouter and Podd, {Frank J.W.} and Tan, {Yee M.} and Xianyang Gao and Peyton, {Anthony J.}",

year = "2018",

month = aug,

day = "20",

doi = "10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441605",

language = "English",

isbn = "9781538657775",

series = "2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018",

publisher = "IEEE",

booktitle = "2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018",

address = "United States",

note = "17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018 ; Conference date: 18-06-2018 Through 21-06-2018",

}

Van Verre, W, Podd, FJW, Tan, YM, Gao, X & Peyton, AJ 2018, A Comparison of Solid and Loaded Bowtie Antennas in GPR for the Detection of Buried Landmines. in 2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018., 8441605, 2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018, IEEE, 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Rapperswil, Switzerland, 18/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441605

A Comparison of Solid and Loaded Bowtie Antennas in GPR for the Detection of Buried Landmines. / Van Verre, Wouter; Podd, Frank J.W.; Tan, Yee M. et al.
2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018. IEEE, 2018. 8441605 (2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

TY - GEN

T1 - A Comparison of Solid and Loaded Bowtie Antennas in GPR for the Detection of Buried Landmines

AU - Van Verre, Wouter

AU - Podd, Frank J.W.

AU - Tan, Yee M.

AU - Gao, Xianyang

AU - Peyton, Anthony J.

PY - 2018/8/20

Y1 - 2018/8/20

N2 - This paper presents a comparison between solid and resisitively loaded bowtie antennas in GPR applications for the purpose of finding buried landmines. The resistively-loaded antennas were first evaluated over dry sand in a laboratory-based experiment with a landmine surrogate. Further testing, comparing the performance of the loaded antennas to that of solid bowtie antennas, was performed over real soil, with a real landmine. Using the loaded bowtie antennas, the system got a response from the target in the indoor experiment but not in the outdoor experiment. The system did detect the buried landmine in the outdoor experiment when using the solid bowtie antennas. It is likely that the losses in the real soil were too high compared to the losses in dry sand for the system to be able to get a response using loaded antennas. The GPR system tested in this paper forms part of a dual-modality system for humanitarian demining applications.

AB - This paper presents a comparison between solid and resisitively loaded bowtie antennas in GPR applications for the purpose of finding buried landmines. The resistively-loaded antennas were first evaluated over dry sand in a laboratory-based experiment with a landmine surrogate. Further testing, comparing the performance of the loaded antennas to that of solid bowtie antennas, was performed over real soil, with a real landmine. Using the loaded bowtie antennas, the system got a response from the target in the indoor experiment but not in the outdoor experiment. The system did detect the buried landmine in the outdoor experiment when using the solid bowtie antennas. It is likely that the losses in the real soil were too high compared to the losses in dry sand for the system to be able to get a response using loaded antennas. The GPR system tested in this paper forms part of a dual-modality system for humanitarian demining applications.

U2 - 10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441605

DO - 10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441605

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85053372639

SN - 9781538657775

T3 - 2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018

BT - 2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2018

PB - IEEE

T2 - 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar

Y2 - 18 June 2018 through 21 June 2018

ER -

A Comparison of Solid and Loaded Bowtie Antennas in GPR for the Detection of Buried Landmines

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Projects

Electromagnetic Sensing Group

Cite this