Airborne sensor concept to image shallow-buried targets

Abstract

This paper develops an airborne sensor concept to detect and image shallow-buried targets with a focus on the remote sensing of landmines. Our ongoing ground-based bistatic ground-penetrating radar (GPR) experiments have demonstrated deep penetration and subwavelength resolution. Simulation software (ground penetrating radar processing-GPRP) was developed and validated using experimental results. Extrapolation of the experimental results to higher frequencies using the simulation software indicates the ability to provide high-quality images of shallow-buried targets.