Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g. – Return signal controls radar system – Transmitter
Patent
1997-07-28
1999-04-20
Lobo, Ian J.
Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,
Return signal controls radar system
Transmitter
342 22, 342 21, 342 95, G01S 1318
Patent
active
058961020
ABSTRACT:
A cost-effective ultra-wideband radar system capable of locating nearby buried objects such as reinforcing steel rods, pipes, and other objects buried in concrete, soil, behind walls, or in the air. A sequence of ultra-wideband radar pulses e.g. at a plurality of frequencies in a range of about 2 MHz to about 10 GHz are emitted without a carrier and the system detects deflected pulse energy caused by the transmitted pulse whenever encountering a change in the medium i.e. an air to metal change or concrete to metal change. This reflected energy is detected and visually displayed. The range gate delay of the receiver is continuously varied, thus changing the distance from the unit to where the reflected energy would be potentially detected from the target. By continuously sweeping the "depth" of the scan, the operator need only move the unit in two dimensions across the surface to detect objects buried or hidden at varying depths interior to or behind the surface. The range gate system includes a multipoint background subtraction, corrected gain with distance, linear range gate time correction and a dielectric constant correction for a calibrated distance display.
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Klivans Norman R.
Lobo Ian J.
Zircon Corporation
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