Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a flexible and cost-effective tool for performing structural integrity assessment and quick damage evaluation of manmade structures, including cultural heritage (CH) assets. In this context, this paper deals with the usefulness of GPR surveys enhanced by the use of a Microwave Tomographic data processing approach as a methodology for the diagnosis and monitorin...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

During the last decade Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has proved its ability to act as a powerful geophysical tool for subsurface investigations. GPR is a more user friendly and cost-effective tool due to recent technological developments. Lower cost and simple operation has increased the practice of GPR in the utility locating market as well as other traditional markets. Deploying GPR methods ...

Landmine problem is enormous and worldwide. Impulse ground penetrating radar (ImGPR) is one of the technologies that have been extensively researched as a means of improving landmine detection efficiency. We propose two methods to detect buried landmines. Both methods are based on background subtraction techniques to detect buried plastic landmines. The first method uses adaptive background est...

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...

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 ...

In this contribution, some possible effects of large band electromagnetic interferences on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data are shown, and a possible way to counteract them is shown, too. The mitigation of the interferences is implemented thanks to a prototypal reconfigurable stepped frequency GPR system, that allows to program the integration time of the harmonic tones vs. the frequency. In...