Ultrawideband Radar

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Holographic Subsurface Radar Technology and Applications

Sergey I. Ivashov, Lorenzo Capineri and Timothy D. Bechtel

CONTENTS

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Radar Description

13.2.1 Design of the HSR

13.2.2 Theoretical Analysis for a Point Scatterer

13.2.3 Validation of RASCAN Images for a Low-Attenuation Medium

13.3 Field Applications and Demonstrations of HSR

13.3.1 RASCAN in Building Structure Surveying

13.3.2 Detection of Water Intrusion in the Underground Parts of a Building

13.3.3 Security Applications

13.3.4 Humanitarian Demining

13.4 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

13.1 Introduction

In their early days of development (1970s and 1980s), subsurface radars were considered an electromagnetic technique for detection of subsurface objects ...