In this paper, first, a new range-estimation technique using time reversal (TR) for ground-penetrating-radar (GPR) applications is presented. The estimator is referred to as the TR/GPR range estimator. The motivation for this paper comes from the need of accurately estimating the location of underground objects such as landmines or unexploded ordinance for safe clearance. Second, the Cramér–Rao...

to date, a number of numerical methods, including the popular finite-difference time domain (fdtd) technique, have been proposed to simulate ground-penetrating radar (gpr) responses. despite having a number of advantages, the finite-difference method also has pitfalls such as being very time consuming in simulating the most common case of media with high dielectric permittivity, causing the for...

Passive wireless transducers are used as sensors, probed by a RADAR system. A simple way to separate the returning signal from the clutter is to delay the response, so that the clutter decays before the echoes are received. This can be achieved by introducing a fixed delay in the sensor design. Acoustic wave transducers are ideally suited as cooperative targets for passive, wireless sensing. Th...

Abstract. Monitoring active layer dynamics is critical for improving the understanding of near-surface thermal and hydrological processes in cryosphere. This study presents laboratory test a low-cost ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system within experiment freezing thawing monitoring. The an in-house-built low-power monostatic GPR antenna coupled with reflectometer piloted by single-board comput...

In this paper, we adapt the Faster-RCNN framework for the detection of underground buried objects (i.e. hyperbola reflections) in B-scan ground penetrating radar (GPR) images. Due to the lack of real data for training, we propose to incorporate more simulated radargrams generated from different configurations using the gprMax toolbox. Our designed CNN is first pre-trained on the grayscale Cifar...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR), as a non-destructive and rapid detection instrument, has been widely used for underground pipeline detection. However, the interpretation of 3-dimensional GPR images is still manually performed, process inefficient. Aiming at solving challenges automatic recognition pipelines, we propose method based on deep learning algorithm, which uses improved 3D depth-wise s...

A comprehensive analysis of electromagnetic (EM) inversion applied to pavement profiling by using a monostatic ground penetrating radar (GPR) is presented. Since in GPR systems using transfers EM (TEM) horns, the antenna is positioned close to the the investigated medium and a strong EM interaction occurs. This effect is taken into account by modeling the antenna with equivalent sources placed ...

Acoustic wave transducers act as cooperative targets for passive, wireless sensing by converting an incoming electromagnetic pulse to an acoustic wave whose velocity is dependent, by design, with a given quantity under investigation. The acoustic wave is delayed and emitted back to the measurement electronics as an electromagnetic pulse by direct piezoelectric effect. In the context of sub-surf...