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@ARTICLE{vandenBosch:52908,
      author       = {van den Bosch, I. and Lambot, S. and Druyts, P. and Huynen,
                      I. and Acheroy, M.},
      title        = {{B}uried target signature extraction from
                      ground-penetrating radar signal: measurements and
                      simulations},
      journal      = {Near surface geophysics},
      volume       = {4},
      issn         = {1569-4445},
      address      = {Houten},
      publisher    = {EAGE},
      reportid     = {PreJuSER-52908},
      pages        = {31 - 38},
      year         = {2006},
      note         = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
      abstract     = {Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) proves to be a very valuable
                      tool in the field of humanitarian demining, especially for
                      the detection of plastic land-mines. Recently, a monostatic
                      stepped-frequency continuous-wave (SFCW) GPR, together with
                      a conceptual model of the radar-antenna-soil system, has
                      been developed for the characterization of the
                      electromagnetic parameters of soil, i.e. dielectric
                      permittivity (epsilon), magnetic permeability (mu) and
                      electric conductivity (sigma). This approach is extended
                      here to the extraction of the GPR signal and to modelling
                      the signatures of buried targets. The equivalence principle
                      is used to decompose the GPR signal into its soil and
                      target-in-soil components, as well as to model the
                      radar-soil-target system. It permits the soil contribution
                      to be subtracted from the total GPR signal to provide the
                      signature of the buried target. This signature is compared
                      to simulations. For a proof of the concept, the GPR return
                      signal from a buried metal sphere has been simulated using
                      the Method of Moments and it shows good agreement with its
                      measured counterpart. We also have extracted clean
                      frequency- and time-domain signatures of a PMN-2 plastic
                      mine embedded in a multilayered medium, subject to various
                      water contents. The method is also applied to a B-scan above
                      a buried conducting cylinder. Finally, a study of the main
                      sources of errors in the extraction of the signature of a
                      buried target shows that mistakes in antenna height
                      measurement lead to errors more important than those due to
                      misestimating the relative dielectric permittivity of the
                      soil.},
      keywords     = {J (WoSType)},
      cin          = {ICG-IV},
      ddc          = {550},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB50},
      pnm          = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
      pid          = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
      shelfmark    = {Geochemistry $\&$ Geophysics},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      UT           = {WOS:000235242800006},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/52908},
}