Use of antenna arrays for GPR surveying in archaeology

Abstract

ABSTRACT Among the different geophysical prospecting methods applied in archaeology, ground‐penetrating radar is one that still requires a lot of time to carry out field recordings. A duo‐antenna configuration is proposed that will halve the time needed in the field. Tests have shown that this can be done without any interference between the two antennae. The signals from different antennae do not have the same characteristics and the spectrum and amplitude of the traces are not the same. The use of spectral whitening and energy matching for adjacent traces or samples makes the data sets as similar as possible to allow for unperturbed time‐ or depth‐slices. As a side effect, spectral whitening enhances the vertical resolution and penetration depth of the method.