Submitted:
31 December 2025
Posted:
01 January 2026
You are already at the latest version
Abstract
This paper focuses on the design of a lightweight antenna suitable for remote sensing applications aimed at the identification of buried objects from UAVs. The presented antenna structure is simple, lightweight, and allows for achieving a fractional bandwidth of nearly 100% with an excellent stability of the radiation pattern that exhibits minimal modification within the operating band of the antenna. We illustrate numerical simulations and measurements of an antenna prototype that validate the proposed approach.
Keywords:
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
; ground penetrating radar (GPR)
; ultra-Wideband (UWB) antenna
; buried object detection
; remote sensing
; lightweight antenna
; pattern stability
Copyright: This open access article is published under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, which permit the free download, distribution, and reuse, provided that the author and preprint are cited in any reuse.
