This study uses the spaceborne radar interferometry technique to monitor ground subsidence and far-field displacement due to underground longwall mining in the Southern Coalfields of New South Wales, Australia. The radar images acquired by the European ENVISAT/ASAR and the Japanese ALOS/PALSAR sensors were used to compute the terrain deformation. ASAR and PALSAR sensors use microwave signals in...

The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is considered now as the most effective instrument for producing radar images of ground scenes with a high spatial resolution. The usage of small aircrafts as the platform for the deployment of SAR systems is attractive from the point of view of many practical applications. Firstly, this enables for a substantial lowering of the exploitation costs of SAR senso...

We are very pleased to present the Special Issue “Recent Progress in Electromagnetic Theory and its Applications”, an outcome of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action TU1208 “Civil engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar”. The Special Issue comprises two parts: Part I includes eight papers on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology, methodology and appl...

The Electromagnetic Time Reversal (TR) technique is based on the time invariance property of electromagnetic waves. For every forward electromagnetic wave, there exist a back propagating wave which follows the same path. If the medium has less loss and is inhomogeneous, then TR provides better crossrange resolution. The purpose of this paper is to showcase the improved properties of TR and its ...

This paper reports the progress of the ongoing ESA CAT-1 project (ID 1078). Radar interferometry (InSAR) has been used together with GIS (Geographic Information System) technique to monitor ground subsidence due to underground mining in a test site around the Appin township, southwest of Sydney, Australia. Various digital elevation models (DEMs) are assessed using elevation profiles from ground...

In this work, we present a methodology for fusing high frequency and low frequency radar images. The goal of this system is to nd the strong surface clutter which is common to high and low frequency radar images and to subtract (defuse) this common component from the low frequency image to extract sub-surface information.

In this paper the focusing principle of Kirchoff migration is described. This allows the introduction of optical focusing techniques that can be used to focus migration. Three focus measures are described that are useful for optimising migration. Simple optimisation routines are implemented that model uncertainties in the migration parameters. The focus measures are then used as cost functions ...

Ground-penetrating radar is an extremely useful tool for the mapping and interpretation of buried cultural remains within 2–3 metres of the surface, especially when the stratigraphy is complex. Standard reflection profiles can be processed to correct for depth and distance, and also filtered and processed to make cultural features visible. When many profiles are collected in closely spaced tran...

Ground-based frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar measurements made throughout the 2002–03 NASA Cold Lands Processes (CLPX) mission in Colorado, USA, were designed to study the major electromagnetic transitions within the alpine snowpack over a wide range of conditions, and their effect on measurements made with different active radar measurement parameters. Measurements during 2002...