Experimental Calibration of GPR S-Parameter Data for Subsurface Prospecting

I did my bachelor thesis during an Erasmus stay in University of Genoa (Italy), where I was enrolled in Internet and Multimedia Engineering Master’s Degree as the equivalent to the fourth year of the Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering in Public University of Navarre. Here you can find a summary of the work carried out as well as the link to the complete text.

Abstract

The use of GPR imaging techniques is of great interest in certain fields such as archaeology, civil engineering or geology. However, in order to obtain results, an inverse problem needs to be solved. When working with experimental data, it is necessary to adopt calibration techniques due to the spurious effects that appear. For this reason, two antenna calibration methods have been implemented and evaluated in this thesis with several test and calibration targets, obtaining results that will be beneficial for current and to continue with future research in this field. The activities related to this thesis have been carried out at the Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory of the Department of Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication Engineering, and Naval Architecture (DITEN) of the University of Genoa.

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