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Ultra-Wideband Pulse Radar Mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Monitoring of Moving Objects

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This article describes a classic ground-penetrating radar, which includes a transmitter on two step-recovery diodes for the shock excitation of an ultra-wideband Vivaldi antenna, a discrete sampling receiver with data transmission via Ethernet mounted on a six-blade unmanned aerial vehicle, experiments and processing results of the obtained signals for detecting the movement of small objects both in open space and behind a wall, as well as calculations to determine the thickness of the sounded walls in the case of a single measurement scenario.

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This work was supported by the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, project no. 1.1.1.1/18/A/139, co-financed by the ERAF, Multidimensional Aerial and Facility Scanning System (MAFSS) in co-operation between the DATA Group, the University of Latvia’s Mathematical and Informatics Institute, and EDI.

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    V. Aristov, E. Lobanovs, R. Maliks, M. Celitans, J. Simanovichs, S. Bondars & R. Gailis

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Aristov, V., Lobanovs, E., Maliks, R. et al. Ultra-Wideband Pulse Radar Mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Monitoring of Moving Objects. Aut. Control Comp. Sci. 55, 396–405 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0146411621040027

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