Archimedean spiral antenna for underground soil measurements in Greenland

Summary, in English

In this paper, we present a thin single-arm Archimedean spiral antenna designed to be used in underground soil measurements to characterize the dielectric properties of soil during freezing and thawing processes. The designed antenna works in low permittivity, low-loss frozen soil as well as in high permittivity, high-loss marshy soil and operates over the frequency range 1–3 GHz. The antennas has been successfully used for measurements of soil properties in situ.

• Author: Carl Gustafson; Anders J Johansson
• Department/s: Department of Electrical and Information Technology; ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
• Publishing year: 2010
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: [Host publication title missing]
• Links: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5505147
• Document type: Conference paper
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Conference name: 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010
• Conference date: 2010-04-12 - 2010-04-16
• Conference place: Barcelona, Spain
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 978-1-4244-6431-9