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Analysis and Simulation on a Sequential Rotationally Excited Circularly Polarized Multi-Dipole Antennas Array for Separated GPR in Active Remote Sensing of Deep Earth
Fan, H.; Zhang, Y.; Tian, Q.; Wang, X.; Meng, H. Analysis and Simulation of a Sequential Rotationally Excited Circular Polarized Multi-Dipole Array for a Bi-Static Antenna GPR for Deep Exploration. Remote Sens.2023, 15, 1134.
Fan, H.; Zhang, Y.; Tian, Q.; Wang, X.; Meng, H. Analysis and Simulation of a Sequential Rotationally Excited Circular Polarized Multi-Dipole Array for a Bi-Static Antenna GPR for Deep Exploration. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 1134.
Fan, H.; Zhang, Y.; Tian, Q.; Wang, X.; Meng, H. Analysis and Simulation of a Sequential Rotationally Excited Circular Polarized Multi-Dipole Array for a Bi-Static Antenna GPR for Deep Exploration. Remote Sens.2023, 15, 1134.
Fan, H.; Zhang, Y.; Tian, Q.; Wang, X.; Meng, H. Analysis and Simulation of a Sequential Rotationally Excited Circular Polarized Multi-Dipole Array for a Bi-Static Antenna GPR for Deep Exploration. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 1134.
Abstract
As an effective active remote sensing (ARS) technology for shallow underground targets, ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a detection method to obtain the characteristic information of underground targets by transmitting electromagnetic wave from the antenna and analyzing the propagation law of the electromagnetic wave underground. Due to the high frequency(1MHz-3GHz) of GPR, the depth of geological exploration is shallow(0.1m-30m). In order to remote sensing the deep earth, it is necessary to increase the size of the radiation source in order to reduce the radiation frequency. At the same time, for most separated GPRs, a single dipole antenna (SD) is used as the radiation source and another antenna device placed along the electromagnetic wave propagation direction in the far field as a remote sensing sensor (RSS), both of which are horizontally linearly polarized (LP) antennas. In some cases, such a design is apt to cause problems such as multipath effect (ME) and polarization mismatch (PM). When GPR in ARS of deep earth is performed, it often results in increased errors, signal attenuation during data reception and processing. In contrast, at the radiation source, with the use of large aperture multiple-dipole antennas (MD) and multi-channel sequential rotational excitation, the electromagnetic wave can radiate outward in the form of circular polarization at a low frequency. At the RSS, the trouble caused by ME and PM can be reduced even if the LP antennas are used. A novel sequential rotationally excited (SRE) circularly polarized (CP) MD array for separated GPR in ARS of deep earth is proposed in this paper, which uses a large aperture CP MD array instead of a small size LP SD. The analysis and simulation results demonstrate that under the premise of the same transmitting power, comparing circular polarization and linear polarization, by using SRE CP MD antennas array radiation source, a significant enhancement (about 7dB) of the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) will occur by collecting the radiant energy at the RSS. More importantly, by reducing the exploration frequency to 10KHz, the exploration depth will also be greatly increased by about 10 times.
Keywords
Active remote sensing; Sequential rotationally excited; Circularly Polarized; GPR; SNR
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Geology
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