Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has been approved as very successful sensing device for various kinds of investigations & detection of buried targets like pipe, (Water, Gas, Electric) cable, archaeological objects, voids, unexploded ordinances (UXO) etc. Such GPR using electromagnetic pulse is required to reduce pulse-width for high resolution and increase transmitting power for signal enhanceme...

The mass balance of ice sheets is an intensively studied topic in the context of global change and sealevel rise. However – particularly in Antarctica – obtaining mass balance estimates remains difficult due to various logistical problems. In the framework of the TASTE-IDEA (Trans-Antarctic Scientific Traverses Expeditions – Ice Divide of East Antarctica) program, an International Polar Year pr...

Continuous seismic-reflection profiling (CSP) and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys were conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in April 1998 over the northern part of John’s Pond, a glacial kettle pond southeast of Otis Air National Guard Base, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The surveys were conducted to delineate the types and thickness of sedimentary units that may control the infiltration o...

This paper presents a novel method for detection of multiple landmines using a ground penetrating radar (GPR). Conventional algorithms mainly focus on detection of a single landmine, which cannot linearly extend to the multiple landmine case. The proposed algorithm is composed of four steps; estimation of the number of multiple objects buried in the ground, isolation of each object, feature ext...

In the UK and many other countries, underground networks are used to deliver a range of services to households and industries. Maintaining and upgrading these networks are major undertakings. In order to avoid unnecessary holes dug in wrong places, prior to invasive works it is normally required that excavators should request and obtain record information from all relevant utilities to identify...

A 30 m by 30 m two-dimensional grid was designed on a flat bench behind a quarry face of predominantly limestone with thin shale layers located at a Bonner Springs, Kansas site to test the utility of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) for stratigraphic studies. GPR data were collected along seven lines parallel to the quarry face and seven lines perpendicular to the quarry face, each separated by 5...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems are sensors that able to acquire underground images by scanning the surface of soil/pavement under investigation. Usually, a GPR system records its own position along scan line, using mechanical odometer, i.e., rolling wheel in contact with ground. This simple and cheap solution can be ineffective on uneven terrains. In this paper, positioning based an int...

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems fall into the category of ultra-wideband (UWB) devices. Most GPR equipment covers a frequency range between an octave and a decade by using short-time pulses. Each signal recorded by a GPR gathers a temporal log of attenuated and distorted versions of these pulses (due to the effect of the propagation medium) plus possible electromagnetic interferences and...

ompressive sensing (CS) is a new method for image sampling in contrast with well-known Nyquist sampling theorem. In addition to the sampling and sparse domain which play an important role in perfect signal recovery on CS framework, the recovery algorithm which has been used also has effects on the reconstructed image. In this paper, the performance of four recovery algorithms are compared accor...

The detection of embedded object from ground penetrating radar GPR imagery is our goal. The GPR image is a cross sectional slices. The embedded objects are metal and/or plastic type. In many fields demand for visualizing objects scanned as cross sectional slices is growing. This research has many real world applications, such as robotic environments, medicine, remote sensing, inspection of indu...