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The directional borehole radar with a loop array antenna was applied to measure the fracture zone in the rock in the 3-D space. The operating frequencies are between 10 and 300 MHz. We made the directional borehole radar radiating and sensitive to a horizontally polarized wave in a vertical borehole. This wave polarization is unlike the vertical one the conventional borehole radar uses and has the potential for polarimetric radar. The developed radar includes the four-loop elements whose feeding points are directed in different directions from each other. The field test site is in a gallery at the Nakatatsu mine in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. A water-filled borehole penetrates a fracture zone in rock at this site, and this fracture zone is the radar target. This radar probe detected the reflected wave from fractures and estimated the azimuth and elevation angle of the reflected wave’s direction of arrival. According to the estimated reflection points shown in the 3-D space, the estimated reflection points for the fracture zone were near the positions, which was estimated by the visual observation of the fractures on the gallery’s wall.

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