Design of a low cost miniaturized SFCW GPR with initial results

Swati Duggal; Piyush Sinha; Manish Gupta; Anand Patel; V. V. Vedam; Pratik Mevada; Rajesh Chavda; Amita Shah; Deepak Putrevu

doi:10.1117/12.2223303

2 May 2016 Design of a low cost miniaturized SFCW GPR with initial results

Swati Duggal, Piyush Sinha, Manish Gupta, Anand Patel, V. V. Vedam, Pratik Mevada, Rajesh Chavda, Amita Shah, Deepak Putrevu

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Proceedings Volume 9881, Earth Observing Missions and Sensors: Development, Implementation, and Characterization IV; 988110 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223303
Event: SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2016, New Delhi, India

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This paper discusses about the design &developmental of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), various scientific and commercial applications of GPR along with the testing and results of GPR at Antarctica for Ice thickness measurement. GPR instruments are categorised as per their frequency of operation, which is inversely proportional to the depth of penetration. GPRs are also categorized as per method of operation which is time-domain or frequency-domain. Indian market is presently procuring GPRs from only foreign suppliers. Space Applications Centre (SAC) had taken up GPR as R&D Technological development with a view to benchmark the technology which may be transferred to local industry for mass production of instrument at a relatively cheaper cost (~20 times cheaper). Hence, this instrument presents a viable indigenous alternative. Also, the design and configuration was targeted for terrestrial as well as future interplanetary (Lander/Rover) missions of ISRO to map subsurface features. The developed GPR has a very large bandwidth (100%, i.e. bandwidth of 500MHz with centre-frequency of 500MHz) and high dynamic range along with the advantage of being highly portable (<10kg). The system was configured as a Stepped-Frequency-Continuous-Wave (SFCW) GPR which is a frequency domain GPR with the aim to increase the detection capabilities with respect to current systems. In order to achieve this goal, innovative electronic equipment have been designed and developed. Three prototypes were developed and two of them have been delivered for Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA) in 2013 and 2014-15, respectively and promising results have been obtained. The results from the same closely compare with that from commercial GPR too.

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Swati Duggal, Piyush Sinha, Manish Gupta, Anand Patel, V. V. Vedam, Pratik Mevada, Rajesh Chavda, Amita Shah, and Deepak Putrevu "Design of a low cost miniaturized SFCW GPR with initial results", Proc. SPIE 9881, Earth Observing Missions and Sensors: Development, Implementation, and Characterization IV, 988110 (2 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223303

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