Near range radar and its application to near surface geophysics and disaster mitigation

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss about the near range radar applied to various environmental applications and disaster mitigation issues. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing or migration is the key technology in near range radar imaging, which can be used in ground penetrating radar (GPR) and ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR). We demonstrate some applications which include GPR for humanitarian demining, GPR for archaeological survey, GB-SAR for landslide monitoring and nondestructive inspection of wooden buildings. We also demonstrate a new array GPR system “Yakumo”, which was used for archaeological survey for demonstration of advanced multi-static radar signal processing for better radar imaging.

Keywords

near range radar / GPR / GB-SAR / disaster mitigation / SAR processing / migration / multi-static radar

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