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2015-04-16
Permittivity of Sub-Soil Materials Retrieved through Transmission Line Model and GPR Data
By
Claudia Guattari,

    Dr. Claudia Guattari

    Department of Engineering

    ``Roma Tre'' University

    Italy

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Davide Ramaccia,

    Dr. Davide Ramaccia

    Department of Engineering

    ``Roma Tre'' University

    Italy

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Filiberto Bilotti,

    Dr. Filiberto Bilotti

    Department of Applied Electronics

    University of Roma Tre

    Italy

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Alessandro Toscano

    Dr. Alessandro Toscano

    Department of Engineering

    “Roma Tre” University

    Italy

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 151, 65-72, 2015
doi:10.2528/PIER15022002
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new retrieval technique to estimate the dielectric permittivity of the sub-soil materials of a stratified structure. The core of the retrieval procedure is a proper electromagnetic circuit model representing the realistic stratified media as a cascade of transmission line segments. Exploiting the analogies between the electrical parameters of the transmission line segments and the constitutive parameters of the materials of the multilayer structure, the propagation of the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) signal is equivalently represented as a pair of voltage and current waves propagating in the transmission line network. The effectiveness of the proposed retrieval technique is confirmed by proper experimental results. In particular, the retrieved electromagnetic parameters of the sub-soil materials are found to be consistent with the ones obtained by a direct characterization of the same materials. These results suggest that the proposed method can be successfully applied to the material characterization able to monitor several macroscopic properties of sub-soil materials.
Citation
Claudia Guattari, Davide Ramaccia, Filiberto Bilotti, and Alessandro Toscano, "Permittivity of Sub-Soil Materials Retrieved through Transmission Line Model and GPR Data," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 151, 65-72, 2015.
doi:10.2528/PIER15022002
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