Paper Info
Title
Simulation and Implementation of Air-Coupled SFCW Radar on VNA
Abstract
The paper presents implementation of Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave (SFCW) Radar for landmine detection on Vector Network Analyser (VNA) instrument. Investigated was the ability to detect metal and plastic landmines without ground coupling from distances between 5 cm and up to 1 m underground. The SFCW radar was first simulated in Matlab software to confirm the working principle and obtain rough parameters for later hardware implementation. For this purpose also antennas have been developed and tested through different frequency bands from 500 MHz up to 4 GHz. The captured data from VNA has been also further processed with use of Matlab software, where an Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) image was created. Preliminary experimental results show possibility to detect small Anti Personnel (AP) landmines and promising solution for further hardware implementation with use of standard integrated components (IC) which could make the radar lightweight and cost effective.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/IWSSIP.2018.8439561
2018 25th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Stepped Frequency Radar,Ground penetrating Radar,Landmine detection,Air-coupled Radar,VNA
Radar,Continuous wave,Computer vision,MATLAB,Coupling,Ground-penetrating radar,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Software,Artificial intelligence,Network analyser,Radio spectrum
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2157-8672
978-1-5386-6980-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Danijel Sipos100.68
P. Planinšič2277.70
Du¿an Gleich3957.17