{"title":"Comparison of different methods for reconstruction of microwave holograms recorded by the subsurface radar","authors":"V. Razevig, S. Ivashov, I. Vasiliev, A. Zhuravlev","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254884","url":null,"abstract":"A family of holographic subsurface radars, named RASCAN, has been produced during more than fifteen years. Until recently RASCAN radar had the direct-gain receiver that was registering amplitude of reflected signal only. Therefore, the obtained images were used without any processing. New generation of RASCAN radars with quadrature receiver allows recording two quadratures of reflected signal and finding its amplitude and phase. The performance of such devices crucially depends on the frequency bandwidth of sounding signal and on the appropriate reconstruction algorithms. The goal of this paper is to discuss the basics of various approaches such as single-frequency, two-frequency and wide-band. The comparison of the methods was carried out on the simulated and experiment holograms.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131652308","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":"Integrative GPR loss in a discrete random medium model: The effect of rough-surface and subsurface Mie scatterers","authors":"Lanbo Liu, S. Arcone","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6255006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6255006","url":null,"abstract":"In rough geologic media such as alluvial gravels, glacial till, talus or colluvium, the grain sizes may span the range of GPR in situ wavelengths. Here we experimentally and numerically model the combined scattering loss from a rough surface and subsurface dielectric scatterers, the dimensions of which lie within the Mie regime. We compare the GPR signal amplitude and waveform reflected from the bottom of a large tank filled with small boulders, with the numerically computed response from a discrete random medium (DRM) model in which the scatterers are simulated with ellipsoids. In the numerical model the permittivity of the ellipsoids is constant, and their size and orientation are randomized, but with a uniform distribution. The starting in situ dominant pulse wavelength at 900 MHz was about 17 cm, as was the average rock dimension. The major axis of all DRM scatterers ranged from 15-25 cm. Experimentally, the 900-MHz pulse underwent most dispersion within the first in situ wavelength of depth, and then, at 500-700 MHz dominant frequency, the pulses underwent a near inverse range dependency loss rate, as if the media were a pure dielectric. Using a Monte Carlo style approach, we statistically assessed the scattering loss from many realizations and simulations. The model agrees with the experimental data qualitatively by showing the wave propagation features such as the amplitude decay and high frequency content loss with the increase of the reflection depth.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125475928","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}
N. Boubaki, A. Saintenoy, S. Kowalczyk, R. Mieszkowski, F. Welc, J. Budziszewski, P. Tucholka
{"title":"Ground-penetrating radar prospection over a gallery network resulting from neolithic flint mine (Borownia, Poland)","authors":"N. Boubaki, A. Saintenoy, S. Kowalczyk, R. Mieszkowski, F. Welc, J. Budziszewski, P. Tucholka","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254936","url":null,"abstract":"A Ground-penetrating Radar has been used to map a 100 m2 area suspected to be above a network of galleries remaining from flint prospection during the neolithic period. Twenty profiles have been acquired. Their interpretation, gives evidence for banded flint layers dipping to the North, and underground remaining galleries.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126876693","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":"Application of ground penetrating radar to inspect the metro tunnel","authors":"Yu Hai-zhong, Ouyang Yu-feng, Chen Hong","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254963","url":null,"abstract":"The main constructing methods of metro tunnel include shield tunneling method (TBM) and mining method. The quality of the tunnel constructed by mining method is less stable than by TBM. Various faults may occur during the construction. The tunnel should be inspected by reliable inspecting methods. The inspecting practices in Shenzhen metro indicate that ground penetrating radar (GPR) can be used to exactly inspect the thickness of the second lining, the rebar distribution within the second lining, the dense of the second lining concrete, the cave distribution behind the second lining and so on.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126305564","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}
M. R. Mahmoudzadeh, M. Vanclooster, J. Minet, S. Lambot
{"title":"Ground-penetrating radar for correlation analysis of temporal soil moisture stability and land-slope","authors":"M. R. Mahmoudzadeh, M. Vanclooster, J. Minet, S. Lambot","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6255004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6255004","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge of temporal surface soil moisture variability is an useful key in agriculture, surface hydrology and meteorology. In that respect, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-invasive and promising tool for high-resolution and large scale characterization. In the case of quantitative analysis, off-ground GPR signal modeling and full-waveform inversion has shown a great potential during the last decade. In this research, we applied GPR for time-laps measurements in an agricultural field along a 320 m single transect with a significant land-slope for about 3 months. A 200-2000 MHz TEM-horn antenna situated 1.1 m above the ground, connected to a vector network analyzer (VNA) was used as an off-ground frequency-domain GPR. The accurate positioning was done using a differential GPS. All systems were mounted on a 4-wheels vehicle for realtime and automated mapping. The calibration of the antenna and using the GPR signal inversion permitted to the ground surface relative dielectric permittivity. Topp's model was used for transformation of the relative dielectric permittivity to soil moisture. The temporal stability of the field-average soil moisture was computed by indicators based on the relative difference of the soil moisture to the field-average. The results showed an excellent correlation amount of -0.9905 for temporal stability of soil moisture and slope variability.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115264144","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":"Improvement of target imaging quality by multi-polarization MIMO GPR","authors":"Z. Zeng, Jing Li, Ling Huang, Fengshan Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254845","url":null,"abstract":"As for the conventional ground penetrating radar (GPR) system, the detection result is seriously affected by the antenna directionality, the target scattering sections (RCS) and multi-polarization characteristics of electromagnetic wave. The MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) array antenna GPR technology can overcome the influence of RCS, electromagnetic polarization and improve the quality of target imaging effectively. In this paper, we put forward the MIMO GPR technology based on the “plane wave like (PWL)”. It uses the conventional radar system with multiple antennas and takes the “plane wave like” as transmit resource. It has higher stability and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The multi-polarization detection mode can obtain more precise waveform of incident wave. Combining with multi-polarization phase information of target signal, we can obtain more precise location parameters of target and improve the detection accuracy. In addition, because the antenna interval is far less than wavelength of source signal, the multi-polarization and multi-input signal can compress the width of target response polarized wave and increase the target-range resolution. The result of simulation and experiments demonstrate that the MIMO GPR with multi-polarization detection mode has higher target imaging accuracy than that of the conventional GPR system.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"12 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131505486","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":"Assessment of groundwater contamination by landfill leachate with ground penetrating radar","authors":"N. S. Wijewardana, L. Galagedara, M. Mowjood","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254957","url":null,"abstract":"This study was conducted to identify field scale groundwater (GW) contamination by the leachate generated due to an open dump site using ground penetrating radar (GPR) and to study the GPR wave response under different contaminant levels using GprMax2D. An area of 30 m × 30 m was selected near to the Gohagoda open dump site in Kandy, Sri Lanka (7° 18'N and 80° 37'E). Ten GW monitoring wells were installed. In the GPR modeling, a model domain of 4.0 m × 3.0 m with four different layers was used. The average EC value of raw leachate, soil extraction and GW were 0.6, 0.01 and 0.09 S/m, respectively. A leachate layer with an EC value similar to GW was used in GPR modeling. Results revealed that when a leachate having an EC value of 0.09 S/m, sub-surface reflections below the GW table dissapere. The GPR technique can be used for identifying contaminated plumes in GW due to landfill leachate.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128029319","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}
M. Ercoli, C. Pauselli, C. Federico, A. Frigeri, E. Forte
{"title":"3D GPR imaging for paleoseismology in Central Appennines (Italy)","authors":"M. Ercoli, C. Pauselli, C. Federico, A. Frigeri, E. Forte","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254997","url":null,"abstract":"The knowledge of spatial position and geologic characteristics of active faults is fundamental to locate these elements on geologic maps and better define the potential seismological hazard of an area. A Quaternary fault in the “Piano di Castelluccio” basin, in Central Italy, has been already studied through paleoseismological analysis, provided stratigraphic data on sedimentary units and highlighted evidences of “recent” faulting related to past strong earthquakes. This fault has been defined “silent”, because events were not included in the current seismic catalogues, retaining uncertainties in the definition of the seismic hazard of that area. 2D/3D GPR surveys were done to image the fault zone and to provide new complementary data on the shallow sediments. The 3D data provides continuity of information over the investigation site, characterizing the structure in a total non-invasive way, whilst long 2D profiles were used to extend the study on a wider area. Final images show a characteristic GPR signature of a tectonic structure and faulted units: data reveal its position and continuity in space and highlight clear geometric features, providing useful qualitative and quantitative complementary data.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133409249","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 investigations at Ahichhatra: An attempt to identify buried subsurface structures","authors":"S. Sravanthi, J. Malik, Bhuvan Vikrama","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254939","url":null,"abstract":"Ahichhatra, is 20 km from Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, one of the most ancient settlements in India. It encompasses differential accumulation of cultural and structural deposits beginning from 2500BC-1200AD. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey, involving both 2D & 3D profiling, helped in finding the buried structures at the site and also in understanding the pattern of occupancy. GPR and surface investigations carried out at Ahichhatra revealed slumped and displaced walls, warped surfaces, buried pavements and ruins of various foundations that spread over a wide range of area. These evidences are indicative of a large magnitude earthquake related damage and deformation, most likely having earthquake source in Himalayan foothills.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131876852","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":"GPR data analysis in time-frequency domain","authors":"W. Lai, C. Poon","doi":"10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2012.6254891","url":null,"abstract":"Most GPR applications focus on object identifications and multi-dimensional mapping by extensive signal processing tasks in time domain. This approach suffers from the loss of signal originality that characterizes the desired material properties. This paper attempts to introduce another method of signal analysis based on short time-fourier transform (STFT) in time-frequency domain which aims to restore the information of material properties based on spatial frequency distributions. Examples of two scenarios: a lawn embedded with plastic irrigation pipes and a concrete wall embedded with a steel bar matrix, are given in this paper to introduce this novel method of GPR signal analysis.","PeriodicalId":443640,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)","volume":"46 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134119103","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}