A validation study of the simulation software gprMax by varying antenna stand-off height

Josh Wilkinson; Nigel Davidson

doi:10.1117/12.2300509

30 April 2018 A validation study of the simulation software gprMax by varying antenna stand-off height

Josh Wilkinson, Nigel Davidson

Proceedings Volume 10628, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXIII; 1062808 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2300509
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2018, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The design and subsequent testing of suitable antennas and of complete ground-penetrating radar (GPR) systems can be both time consuming and expensive, with the need to understand the performance of a system in realistic environments of great importance to the end user. Through the use of suitably validated simulations, these costs could be significantly reduced, allowing an economical capability to be built which can accurately predict the performance of novel GPR antennas and existing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) systems in a user defined environment. This paper focuses on a preliminary validation of the open source software gprMax¹ which features the ability to custom define antennas, targets, clutter objects and realistic heterogeneous soils. As an initial step in the assessment of the software, a comparison of the modelled response of targets buried in sand to experimental data has been undertaken, with the variation in response with antenna stand-off height investigated. This was conducted for both a simple bespoke bow-tie antenna design as well as for a Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc. (GSSI) commercial system,² building upon previous work³ which explored the fidelity of gprMax in reproducing the S11 of simple antenna designs.

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Josh Wilkinson and Nigel Davidson "A validation study of the simulation software gprMax by varying antenna stand-off height", Proc. SPIE 10628, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXIII, 1062808 (30 April 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2300509

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