A New Microwave Asphalt Radar Rover for Thin Surface Civil Engineering Applications
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Eeva Huuskonen-Snicker
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Pekka Eskelinen
Abstract
This paper presents a beyond state-of-the-art, sweeping microwave asphalt radar mounted on a small radio controlled four-wheel-drive rover. The quasi-monostatic, remote-controllable radar operates at Ku-band and has an output power of +10 dBm. Detection follows the zero intermediate frequency principle. The sweep width allows for a depth resolution better than 10 mm. With its four microprocessors and laptop computer processing, the radar system can provide pavement permittivity data with an uncertainty close to 0.1. This is a considerable advancement when applying electromagnetic measurement techniques for applications where near surface or thin surface layer measurements are needed.
Acknowledgments
Authors wish to thank the Finnish Transport Agency and Pavement Engineer Katri Eskola for the support in this research. This work benefited from networking activities carried out within the EU funded COST Action TU1208 “Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar”.
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- Frontmatter
- A Triple-Band Monopole Planar Antenna for WLAN and WiMAX Applications
- Novel Compact Asymmetric Coplanar Strip (ACPS)-Fed Zeroth-Order Resonant Antennas with Bandwidth Enhancement
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- Bit Stream Recognition and Analysis in Cognitive Radio
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- Design of OFDM Signal with Good Autocorrelation for Ground Penetrating Radar
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