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2. Brief Description of Georadar
Georadar is quite a sophisticated engineering device. There is a GPR simplified
block diagram, which allows to imagine a general idea of its operation principle, but does
not describes its complexity.
Fig. 2.1. Simplified block diagram of GPR
The transmitter excites the transmitting antenna with very short electrical pulses. The
transmitting antenna radiates ultra-wideband one-and-half-period electromagnetic waves,
the approximate shape of which is shown in Fig. 2.2.
Target
Surface
GPR
Receiver
Transmitter
Central
Control Unit
Analog to Digital
Converter
Antenna
Antenna
Direct wave
Reflected
wave
Radiated
wave
Movement
direction
GNSS
(GPS)
Survey wheel