Multiple-ring Circular Arrayfor Ground-Penetrating Radar Applications : Basic Ideas and Preliminary Results

In this paper, the possibility of using a multiple-ring circular array as an antenna array for Ground-Pene-trating Radar systems is investigated. The theory behind theproposed idea is presented. The preliminary numerical re-sults that are obtained suggest that the proposed congura-tion is promising. It allows achieving a wide frequency bandand low dynamic range ratio of excitations, thus simplifyingthe feeding network. Further interesting requirements maybe satised by exploiting a combination of deterministic andstochastic synthesis techniques to design the array.