{"title":"The practical application of numerical modelling for the advanced interpretation of ground-penetrating radar","authors":"N. Cassidy","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487867","url":null,"abstract":"Ahsfract-As GPR technology improves, there is an increasing demand for more sophisticated and detailed interpretational tools. Numerical modelling has become one of the most popular advanced methods and there is B wide range of electromagnetic modelling schemes available to the GPR user. The finitedifference, time-domain (FDTD) technique is one of the most common, as it provides modellers with a robust, flexible yet accurate modelling scheme that is capable of simulating GPR wave propagation in complex, three-dimensional, heterogeneous, lossy subsurface environments. Through the use of a wellconstrained example, the realistic modeling of near-surface GPR is evaluated including the practical limitations and application constrains of the FDTD method. The results show that despite some obvious deficiencies, even a relatively basic FDTD model can provide important additional information for the advanced interpretation of GPR data.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"92 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":"128205882","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}
V. Kovalenko, A. Yarovoy, L. Ligthart, P. Hakkaart, J. Rhebergen
{"title":"Joint IRCTR/TNO-DS&S measurement campaign for AP-mine detection with VIR GPR","authors":"V. Kovalenko, A. Yarovoy, L. Ligthart, P. Hakkaart, J. Rhebergen","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487839","url":null,"abstract":"The results of the measurement campaign held during the autumn of 2004 in a sand pit located at the TNO-DS&S (formerly known as TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory (FEL)) GPR test facility \"Waalsdorp\" in The Hague, The Netherlands, are presented. Some contamination of the sand in the pit with small scatterers (e.g. sea shells) comparable in size with smaller anti-personnel mines (APM) and roughness of the soil/air interface make the APM detection a non-trivial task.The performance of the \"energy-based\" and \"feature based\" data processing schemes and resulting images are compared and discussed. The performance of the detector relevant to the above mentioned data processing schemes are judged with receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves built on the basis of the automated detector.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"140 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":"127505991","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":"Ground penetrating radar as a quality assurance method for paved and gravel roads in finland","authors":"A. Palli, S. Aho, E. Pesonen","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487863","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a new quality assurance procedure developed by Roadscanners Oy for gravel and paved road evaluation. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) techniques have been successfully applied in different road rehabilitation projects in Finland. Quality assurance measurements are done with 1.0 or 2.2 GHz air-coupled antennas and 400 MHz groundcoupled antennas together with supporting information gathered from core samples, rutting and roughness data. A video and Global Positioning System (GPS) data are collected together with the GPR data. GPR techniques have been used to measure layer thickness, to identify transition wedges and their inclination, to detect steel nets and bedrock surface location.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"37 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":"116686544","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. Saintenoy, P. Tucholka, J. Bailleul, F. Costard, F. Elie, M. Labbeye
{"title":"Modeling and monitoring permafrost thawing in a controlled laboratory experiment","authors":"A. Saintenoy, P. Tucholka, J. Bailleul, F. Costard, F. Elie, M. Labbeye","doi":"10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGPR.2005.1487855","url":null,"abstract":"Being able to detect thawed areas in permafrost is important as permafrost degradations may lead to weaken house and building foundations and reduction in the stability of some mountain slopes [I]. On the other hand, detecting water under frozen surfaces of planets like Mars is an important issue in planetary exploration [ 2 ] . Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has been widely used for ground exploration in cold regions owing to the excellent penetration of radio waves in ice, snow, and frozen ground [3][6]. In addition, the liquid water content strongly influences the electric properties of a medium. Thus GPR is well suited to localize with high resolution unfrozen zones beneath and within permafrost. Prospecting for new developments in monitoring underground processes in space and time with GPR requires 4D test data sets. The large space and time scales of most geological targets like permafrost make them quite unpractical for this usage. Thus we decided to develop an experiment at the scale of the laboratory involving a medium whose electrical properties can partiaIly change under the control of the operator. In this paper, we present GPR data acquired above half a meter cube of soil frozen in a cold chamber with a heater at its bottom. In Section 11, we describe the experimental setup. In Section 111, we present the non-migrated GPR profiles acquired before and after actioning the heater and a model explaining the data. Finally, we compare in Section IV the GPR and thermocouple monitoring of the refreezing phase.","PeriodicalId":272364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2005. IWAGPR 2005.","volume":"13 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":"126839788","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}