Abstract Ballast fouling in railroad substructure is detrimental to railroad track effectiveness and its structural capacity. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) provides a rapid, effective and continuous approach to assess railroad substructure condition. However, unknown ballast dielectric constant and unclear interface between clean and fouled ballast limit the GPR assessment accuracy. In this st...

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 presents an automatic feature recognition method based on center-surround difference detecting and fuzzy logic that can be applied in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) image processing. Adopted center-surround difference method, the salient local image regions are extracted from the GPR images as features of detected objects. And fuzzy logic strategy is used to match the detected featur...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has recently gained a wide acceptance in the archaeological community as a method that can quickly and accurately locate buried archaeological features, artifacts, and important cultural strata in the near-surface. The GPR method has been especially effective in certain sediments and soils between about 20 cm and 5 m below the ground surface, where the targets to ...

Traditional methods o f measuring tree root biomass are labor intensive and destructive in nature. We studied the utility of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to measure tree root biomass in situ within a replicated, intensive culture forestry experiment planted with loblolly pine (Pinus tneda L.). The study site was located in Decatur County, Georgia, in an area of the Troup and Lucy (loamy, kaol...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has gained a distinguished place during recent years as a tool for investigating subsurface objects, yet its output is of low resolution, and in need of further processing in order to make its output readily interpretable. Furthermore, GPR data collected in a typical survey is usually in large quantities, and dealing with such quantities manually to produce final ...

Abstract Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is one of a new instrument in the field survey that has emerge along with advancement world technology. The non-destructive technique (NDT) was introduced GPR able to be used assessing condition pavement structure and condition. This data can assess underground features thus detect any anomalies buried such as cable pipe. current very destructive cost lot...

Landmines are affecting the lives and livelihood of millions of people around the world. The video impulse ground penetrating radar system for detection for small and shallow buried objects has been developed. The hardware combines commercially available components with components specially developed or modified for being used in the system. The GPR system has been desired to measure accurately...

** Microline Co., Ltd. Shinnae Techno-Town 801, Sangbong, Seoul, 131-220, Korea Abstract A ground penetrating radar (GPR) using short-pulse is developed in order to detect small and shallow metal objects buried under the ground. A bistatic mode in which the GPR system uses separate transmitting and receiving antennas is applied. A modified fat dipole antenna is developed for the transmitting an...

This paper provides a comparative study between microwave tomography and synthetic 14 time-reversal imaging techniques as applied to ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys. The 15 comparison is carried out by processing experimental data collected at a controlled test site, with 16 various types of buried targets at given subsurface depths and representative soil conditions. It is 17 shown that...