Research on Amplitude and Polarization Characteristics of Array Ground
Penetrating Radar in Three-dimensional Space
Abstract
A conventional single dipole antenna will make the antenna power gain
effect poor,and the energy of the effective excitation signal and
scattering signal reflected from underground detection target(such as
interface, metal target) is also weak, problems such as shallow
detection depth, low target resolution, and weak signal
anti-interference ability will occur. Array radar uses a multi-emission
and multi-acceptance method to detect underground targets-multiple
transmitting antennas simultaneously excite electromagnetic pulse
signals of the same center frequency, and the electromagnetic energy is
superimposed on each other. When electromagnetic waves encounter the
target, obvious polarization can occur.In this paper,the complex
frequency shift (CFS) perfectly matched layer (PML) is used as the
absorbing boundary condition, which can effectively absorb outwardly
propagating electromagnetic waves to simulate an infinite
three-dimensional space.Use VTK to visualize the propagation wave field
of electromagnetic waves in the three-dimensional model space, track the
full waveform of electromagnetic waves in the three-dimensional model
space, and analyze the polarization characteristics of electromagnetic
waves under different observation methods.In order to improve the low
efficiency of FDTD numerical calculation, GPU is used in the simulation
to accelerate the calculation of the iterative solution of FDTD. By
comparing the simulation data of the array radar and the forward data of
the single-shot single-receive ground penetrating radar, it is concluded
that the array radar observation method has advantages in improving the
echo signal, enhancing the polarization characteristics, and improving
the target resolution and accuracy.