Abstract
The objective of this work is to assess the importance of electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability variations in ground penetrating radar (GPR) reflections commonly interpreted only in terms of permittivity variations. We use the matrix propagator approach to obtain the surface electric field associated with a horizontally layered model whose three electromagnetic properties vary from layer to layer. The solution is based on the plane wave boundary value problem using inverse Fourier transformation to accommodate particular GPR pulses. Our results indicate that while magnetic permeability is unimportant, reflections from electrical conductivity variations can be of the same order as those associated with electrical permittivity boundaries. In particular, we show that a realistic ground model composed of thin conductive layers can produce radargrams similar to those caused by a lossless permittivity contrast.
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