Growth and distribution of coarse roots in time and space represent a gap in our understanding of belowground ecology. Large roots may play a critical role in carbon sequestration belowground. Using ground-penetrating radar (GPR), we quantified coarse-root biomass from an open-top chamber experiment in a scrub-oak ecosystem at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. GPR propagates electromagnetic w...

This paper addresses the problem of inverting Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data, to find the buried inclusions characteristics depth and radii considering a nonhomogenous host media by using neural networks (NN). The aim is the detection and characterization of inclusions in concrete structures. A novel asynchronous model is proposed to the NN arrangement. The model is shown to outperform the...

We present a novel method to detect underground cavities using cross-borehole ground-penetrating radar (GPR). model the propagation of GPR signal across cavity and find that spectrum will be distorted in specific low-pass manner. Comparing spectra received signals with predicted hypothesis-testing approach allows us high probability. The proposed is validated on both simulated real measurements...

It is well known that road safety issues are closely dependent on both pavement structural damages and surface unevenness, whose occurrence is often related to ineffective pavement asset management. The evaluation of road pavement operability is traditionally carried out through distress identification manuals on the basis of standardized comprehensive indexes, as a result of visual inspections...

This is the first (Paper I) of three companion papers focused respectively, on the estimates of the errors in ice thickness retrieved from pulsed ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data, on how to estimate the errors at the grid points of an ice-thickness DEM, and on how the latter errors, plus the boundary delineation errors, affect the ice-volume estimates. We here present a comprehensive analysi...

ground penetrating radar (gpr) method as a high resolution non-destructive geophysical method is used for detection of shallow subsurface targets. this method is based on the transmission of electromagnetic waves inside the earth and recording the reflected waves from the subsurface. as the method uses high-frequency electromagnetic waves in the frequency ranges of 12.5 to 2500 mhz (called gpr ...

Ground-penetrating radar processing and interpretation methods have been developed over time that usually follow a certain standard pathway, which leads from obtaining the raw reflection data to the production of amplitude slice-maps for three-dimensional visualization. In this standard series of analysis steps a great deal of important information contained in the raw data can potentially be l...

We present a ground penetrating radar (GPR) system, which uses an antenna array for in situ measurements of the thickness and dielectric permittivity of an asphalt pavement layer. We calibrated the antenna array by considering the antenna phase center and the antenna offset. The results of the laboratory measurements demonstrate that the proposed calibration method can greatly improve the accur...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has been extensively utilized in deep-space exploration. However, GPR modeling commonly employs simplified antenna models and carrier-free impulse signals, resulting reduced accuracy interpretability. In this paper, we addressed these limitations by combining a tilted monopole linear frequency modulation continuous wave (LFMCW) to simulate real conditions. Additio...

A three-dimensional (3-D) inversion scheme for fixedoffset ground penetrating radar (GPR) is derived that takes into account the loss in the soil and the planar air–soil interface. The forward model of this inversion scheme is based upon the first Born approximation and the dyadic Green function for a two-layer medium. The forward model is inverted using the Tikhonov-regularized pseudo-inverse ...