{"title":"Mine action: status of sensor technolo.gy for close-in and remote detection of antipersonnel mines","authors":"M. Acheroy","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487834","url":null,"abstract":"After a broad introductory discussion on the mine action problem, this paper presents the status of close-in mine detection technologies, including operational characteristics without aiming at being exhaustive. Signal processing aspects and important lessons on data fusion are also discussed briefly. The detection is considered as a global process in which the outputs of the sensors, considered as skilled specialists, are integrated in a fusion operation. Next, the paper briefly addresses the problem of area reduction using remote sensing. In this case, information, collected with appropriate sensors and associated with context information from the field, is integrated in a geographical information system. This part of the paper is intentionally limited to a very short description of the SMART project funded by the European Commission, which uses multispectral and full polarimetric radar data in order to assist image analysts in their interpretation of mined scenes during an area reduction process.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128765453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Pettinelli, A. di Matteo, F. Paolucci, F. Bella, E. Mattei, S. Riccioni, A. De Santis, G. Vannaroni, A. Cereti, D. D. Vento, A. Annan
{"title":"Early-time GPR signal analysis: implications for water content measurement","authors":"E. Pettinelli, A. di Matteo, F. Paolucci, F. Bella, E. Mattei, S. Riccioni, A. De Santis, G. Vannaroni, A. Cereti, D. D. Vento, A. Annan","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116785273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Airfield runway inspection using 3 dimensional GPR","authors":"E. Eide, P.-A. Sandnes, B. Nilssen, S. Tjora","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487861","url":null,"abstract":"The subsurface conditions under an airfield runway has been mapped using 3-dimensional CPR. This paper contains a case story from an airfield survey where full 3-dimensional data acquisition has been performed. The results from the migrated GPR images show details such as cables, drainage pipes and cavities which would have been difficult to detect using traditional 2-dimensional GPR profiling.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121749268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wavelet packets for GPR detection of non-metallic anti-personnel land mines based on higher-order-statistic","authors":"F. Abujarad, G. Nadim, A. Omar","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487837","url":null,"abstract":"An algorithm is described for the detection of non-metallic anti-personnel (AP) land mines by using ground penetrating radar (GPR). The algorithm combines two powerful tools: the wavelet packet analysis and higher-order-statistics (HOS). The use of both techniques makes detection of shallowly anti-personnel land mines objects possible which obscured by the return from air-soil interface. The experimental data sources include 1GHz pulse GPR data, and 1GHz to 4GHz stepped-frequency GPR data, from laboratory measurements.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133009370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Hubbard, Jinsong Chen, K. Williams, Y. Rubin, J. Peterson
{"title":"Environmental and agricultural applications of GPR","authors":"S. Hubbard, Jinsong Chen, K. Williams, Y. Rubin, J. Peterson","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487843","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Hubbard, Susan; Chen, Jinsong; Williams, Ken; Peterson, John; Rubin, Yoram | Abstract: It is widely recognized that natural heterogeneity and the large spatial variability of hydraulic parameters control the spread of contaminants and water in the subsurface. Similarly, hydrological and biogeochemical processes are variable over a wide range of spatial scales. The inadequacy of conventional (wellbore) approaches for characterizing or monitoring the parameters and processes at over large enough areas yet with high enough resolution hinders our ability to optimally manage our natural water resources. GPR methods hold promise for improved and minimally invasive characterization and monitoring of the subsurface. This paper will review several case studies where we have successfully used GPR for a variety of environmental and precision agricultural investigations.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127981632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Validity of ray tracing in modeling ground probing radar for detecting groundwater in the desert","authors":"S. Elkhetali","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487848","url":null,"abstract":"it works from the frequency of 10 MHz to 30 MHz. The depth of the banks of the valley is at 50 m and the images span a width of 150 m. Abstract-Ray tracing technique i s used to simulate detection of groundwater in the desert. A geological structure known a5 the buried valley aquifer is taken as an example. Ray tracing is simple and its application may make oversight of some intricacies that could exist in the subterranean structures. The examined effects are abrupt junction approximation of the interface between the top dry soil and the saturated zone, and the validity of neglecting nearfields of the antenna. This is done after the importance of groundwater to desert communities had been emphasized.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121288676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bretones, C. Moreno de Jong van Coevorden, M. F. Pantoja, F. Garcia Ruiz, S. García, R. Gómez Martin
{"title":"GA design of broadband thin-wire antennas for GPR applications","authors":"A. Bretones, C. Moreno de Jong van Coevorden, M. F. Pantoja, F. Garcia Ruiz, S. García, R. Gómez Martin","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115395305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. van den Bosch, S. Lambot, M. Acheroy, I. Huynen, P. Druyts
{"title":"Accounting for multiple reflections and antenna radiation pattern in gpr signal modeling and experimental validation","authors":"I. van den Bosch, S. Lambot, M. Acheroy, I. Huynen, P. Druyts","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487874","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an accurate model of a monostatic stepped-frequency continuous-wave (SFCW) ground-penetrating radar (GPR). The model takes into account the multiple reflections occurring between the soil, target and antenna, which are a transverse electromagnetic (TEM) ultra-wide band (UWB) horn. Two equivalent current distributions representing the antenna radiation pattern are considered: a dipole of electric current located at the phase center of the antenna, and a Huyghens cosinusoidal distribution of electric and magnetic current located on the aperture. The model is validated by experiments, for which the targets are embedded within increasingly complex backgrounds: in free space, above a metal plane, and finally buried in a sandbox. These experiments validate altogether the radar modeling, as well as the MoM and the dyadic Green's functions (DGFs) used in the numerical algorithms.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"511 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130801944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Lambot, L. Weihermuller, I. van den Bosch, M. Vanclooster, E. Slob
{"title":"Full-wave inversion of off-ground monostatic GPR signal focused on the surface reflection for identifying surface dielectric permittivity","authors":"S. Lambot, L. Weihermuller, I. van den Bosch, M. Vanclooster, E. Slob","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487868","url":null,"abstract":"S. Lambot*, L. Weihermullert, I. van den Boscht, M. Vancloosters and E.C. Slob* *Delft University of Technology Mijnbouwstraat 120, 2628 RX Delft, The Netherlands s.lambot @citg.tudelft.nl, e.c.slob@citg.tudelft.nl t Agrosphere Institute, ICG IV, Forschungszentrum lulich GmbH 52425 Jiilich, Germany l.weihermueller@ fz-juelich.de hlicrowave Laboratory, UniversitC catholique de Louvain Place du Levant 3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium denbosch@emic.ucl.ac.be §Department of Environmental Sciences and Land Use Planning, UniversitC catholique de Louvain Croix du Sud 2 Box 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium vanclooster@geru.ucl.ac.be","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129759388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data fusion for accurate detection of pipe geometry using GPR","authors":"S. Shihab, W. Al-Nuaimy","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132776691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}