GPR antenna test facility at IRCTR-IB
Lestari A.A.a,b, Yulian D.c, Liartoc, Soetikno T.P.d, Suksmono A.B.a,e, Bharata E.a,e, Yarovoy A.G.b, Ligthart L.P.a,b
a International Research Centre for Telecom. and Radar – Indonesian Branch (IRCTR-IB), Indonesia
b International Research Centre for Telecom and Radar (IRCTR), TU Delft, Netherlands
c Radar and Communication Systems (RCS), Indonesia
d Innovative Design Engineering (IDE), Indonesia
e Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia
Abstract
This paper describes the GPR antenna test facility developed at the research branch of IRCTR at ITB Indonesia called IRCTR – Indonesian Branch (IRCTR-IB). The facility consists of a GPR test range, a PC-controlled scanner, a UWB sensor, and measuring equipment. The test range was constructed as a wooden sandbox of 3 m × 3 m × 1.6 m and filled with dry sand with relative permittivity of 5.1. The scanner is used for accurate antenna positioning above the sand and fully controlled from a PC. A control software has been developed to allow automatic data acquisition and antenna positioning, important for measurements of antenna footprints. The measuring equipment consists of a vector network analyzer, a sampling converter and pulse generators to allow accurate measurements in frequency as well as time domain. © 2007 IEEE.
Author keywords
(p ,p ,t) measurements,Accurate measurements,Control software (CS),Dry sand,Ground penetrating radar (GPR) antennas,Ground-penetrating radar (GPR),Indonesia,International (CO),Measuring equipments,Relative permittivity (RP),Test ranges,Time domain (OCT),Ultra wideband (UWB) sensor,Vector network analyzer (VNA)
Indexed keywords
Antenna measurement,GPR antenna test range,Time-domain antenna measurement,UWB antenna measurement