This paper presents statistical signal processing approaches for clutter reduction in Stepped-Frequency Ground Penetrating Radar (SF-GPR) data. In particular, we suggest clutter/signal separation techniques based on principal and independent component analysis (PCA/ICA). The approaches are successfully evaluated and compared on real SF-GPR time-series. Field-test data are acquired using a monos...

The shape and feature extraction in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data is the most addressed application in present underground object identification technique. The problem of automatically detecting the shape and feature in GPR data is in analysing and fitting the hyperbola features from GPR data objects. To address these, we propose a hyperbole fitting method to extract the shape and feature...

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is an imaging technique that uses wide-band nonsinusoidal electromagnetic waves to produce high-resolution images of the subsurface typically from 0-–10 m depth. GPR is an effective tool for subsurface inspection and quality control on engineering construction projects. The survey method is rapid, nondestructive and noninvasive. GPR has been successfully applied t...

Soils are three-dimensional (3D) natural bodies conSlStmg of unconsolidated mineral and organic materials that form a continuous blanket over most of the earth's land sUlface. At all scales of measurements, soils are exceedingly complex and variable in bio logical, chemical, physical, mineralogical, and electromagnetic properties. These properties influence the propaga tion velocity, attenuatio...

Pavement damage is actually one of the most crucial problems in roads. Agencies need first to localize the damage, second to identify the causes. Indeed, the rehabilitation can be compromised, if the cause is not removed. The ground penetrating radar (GPR) technique is used by many agencies involved in roads management. In fact, it is nondestructive and is promising for soil characteristics int...

This paper describes the design process of a 200 MHz Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and a battery powered concrete vertical concrete surface climbing mobile robot. The key design feature is a miniaturized 200 MHz dipole antenna using additional radiating arms and procedure records a reduction of 40% in length compared to a conventional antenna. The antenna set is mounted in front of the robot u...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a geophysical and close-range remote sensing technique based on the use of radar pulses to obtain cross-section images of underground features. This method is characterized by the transmission of an electromagnetic short length pulse (1-2 ns), presenting a centre frequency ranging from 10 MHz to 2.5 GHz. The principles of GPR operation are based on the ability ...

Humanitarian demining by scientific methods is a very important technical issues and ground penetrating radar (GPR) can be one of the best solutions for this difficult task. However, strong clutter makes difficult for detecting buried landmines in real situations. We have developed a synthetic aperture based GPR and tested its capabilities by experiments. We found that synthetic aperture radar ...

■ Abstract Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a near-surface geophysical technique that can provide high resolution images of the dielectric properties of the top few tens of meters of the earth. In applications in contaminant hydrology, radar data can be used to detect the presence of liquid organic contaminants, many of which have dielectric properties distinctly different from those of the ot...

MIMO array can obtain much more equivalent elements by using a small number of transmitters and receivers. However, according to traditional sampling theorem, a certain number of transmitters and receivers are still needed to obtain a dense equivalent array. Since the interesting targets of ground penetrating radar (GPR) are usually sparse, this paper presents a spare MIMO array GPR imaging sch...