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At Delft Geotechnics the technique of ground‐penetrating radar is in use for the detection of buried objects such as pipes. To enable us to give our ‘measurements in the field’ a more quantitative interpretation than can be deduced from these alone, a series of experiments has been started under well‐defined conditions. A cylindrical vessel containing water simulates wet soil. Mounted horizontally above the water surface is a pulsed triangular half‐wave dipole which is used as a transmitting antenna (TA). It has a carrier‐frequency of about 160 MHz and a pulse repetition‐frequency of about 50 kHz.

A movable receiving dipole (‘probe’) in the water measures the transverse, mutually orthogonal ,‐ and ‐components of the pulses as a function of probe‐position (r, θ, φ) and of the height of the TA above the water surface. When these pulses are Fourier‐transformed, the transverse electric fields and at 200 MHz are obtained. The resulting field patterns are compared with computational results on the basis of the theory of the continuous wave, infinitesimal electric dipole (‘point dipole’). It can be concluded that:

  • 1  Far‐field conditions have not fully developed at a depth of about 2.50 m, the largest value of the radius at which field patterns were measured, although it represents a distance of about 15 wavelengths.
  • 2  The attenuation constant of the tapwater used, as deduced from E‐field measurements for θ= 0, 2.50 m < r < 2.75 m, is slightly less than the value measured using a network analyser and air line combination, in agreement with (1).
  • 3  field patterns calculated using the value of the conductivity σ corresponding to the former value of the attenuation constant agree reasonably well with the measured patterns for ≤ 2.50 m and for θ < 20° at all antenna heights considered. Calculated φ patterns do not agree so well with the measured patterns when is close to zero. With increasing height the agreement inproves.
  • 4  In accordance with the theory of the point‐dipole, the angular distribution of the radiation patterns of the TA becomes wider as the frequency decreases.
  • 5  The normalized underwater pulse‐spectra shift to lower frequencies with increasing . This can be explained since the attenuation constant of the water rises with rising frequency.

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