Multi-waveform full-polarimetric GPR for landmine detection

A full-polarimetric ultra wideband GPR front-end has been developed in IRCTR especially for landmine detection application. A number of new ideas have been implemented in the design. A principally new antenna system design and an ability to perform quasi-simultaneous measurements with two transmit polarization and in two different frequency bands are main novelty aspects of the radar. Additionally in comparison with commercially available video impulse GPR systems the front-end has considerably larger bandwidth, ability to measure polarimetric structure of the scattered field and very high precision of scattered field measurements.