{"title":"Application of Ultra-Wideband Synthesis in Software Defined Radar for UAV-based Landmine Detection","authors":"Samuel Prager, M. Moghaddam","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8899149","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we demonstrate the capability of an ultra-wideband software defined radar (SDRadar) implemented in commercial USRP SDR hardware to produce high-resolution images of sub-surface landmine-like targets. We formulate a half-space back-projection focusing algorithm for low-altitude nadir-looking airborne altimetric ground-penetrating SAR that accounts for dispersive and refractive effects of the air-ground interface. Performance of the SDRadar and focusing algorithm are shown in experimental results. This work has applications in the development of low-cost high-resolution UAV-based radar systems for landmine detection and other sub-surface imaging tasks.","PeriodicalId":13262,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"74 1","pages":"10115-10118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8899149","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper we demonstrate the capability of an ultra-wideband software defined radar (SDRadar) implemented in commercial USRP SDR hardware to produce high-resolution images of sub-surface landmine-like targets. We formulate a half-space back-projection focusing algorithm for low-altitude nadir-looking airborne altimetric ground-penetrating SAR that accounts for dispersive and refractive effects of the air-ground interface. Performance of the SDRadar and focusing algorithm are shown in experimental results. This work has applications in the development of low-cost high-resolution UAV-based radar systems for landmine detection and other sub-surface imaging tasks.