Conventional and synthetic aperture processing for airborne ground-penetrating radar

Robert M. Cameron; William L. Simkins; Russell D. Brown

doi:10.1117/12.179960

22 July 1994 Conventional and synthetic aperture processing for airborne ground-penetrating radar

Robert M. Cameron, William L. Simkins, Russell D. Brown

Proceedings Volume 2217, Aerial Surveillance Sensing Including Obscured and Underground Object Detection; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179960
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

For the past four years Airborne Environmental Surveys, a division of Era Aviation, Inc., has used unique and patented airborne frequency modulated, continuous wave radars and processes for detection and mapping subsurface phenomena. Primary application has focused on the detection of manmade objects in landfills, hazardous waste sites (some of which contain unexploded ordnance), and subsurface plumes of refined free- floating hydrocarbons. Recently, MSB Technologies, Inc. has developed a form of synthetic aperture radar processing, called GPSAR, that is tailored especially for the AES radars. Used as an adjunct to more conventional airborne ground-penetrating radar data processing techniques, GPSAR takes advantage of the radars' coherent transmission and produces imagery that is better focused and more accurate in determining an object's range and true depth. This paper describes the iterative stages of data processing and analysis used with the radars and shows the added advantages that GPSAR processing offers.

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Robert M. Cameron, William L. Simkins, and Russell D. Brown "Conventional and synthetic aperture processing for airborne ground-penetrating radar", Proc. SPIE 2217, Aerial Surveillance Sensing Including Obscured and Underground Object Detection, (22 July 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179960

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