Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems are nowadays standard inspection tools in several application areas, such as subsurface prospecting, civil engineering and cultural heritage monitoring. Usually, the raw output of GPR is provided as a B-scan, which has to be further processed in order to extract the needed information about the inspected scene. In this framework, inverse-scattering-based a...

This paper analyzes the effective radiation efficiency of a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) consisting of two resistor-loaded bow-tie antennas covered with a ferrite-coated conducting cavity by using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The GPR is located above a lossless or lossy ground surface. The relation between the radiation powers into the ground and air, dissipated powers at the ...

This paper presents a new ground penetrating radar (GPR) design approach using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and compressive sensing (CS) algorithms. OFDM technique is applied to leverage GPR operating speed with multiple frequency tones transmission and receiving concurrently, and CS technique allows utilizing reduced frequency tones without compromising data reconstruction...

to date, a number of numerical methods, including the popular finite-difference time domain (fdtd) technique, have been proposed to simulate ground-penetrating radar (gpr) responses. despite having a number of advantages, the finite-difference method also has pitfalls such as being very time consuming in simulating the most common case of media with high dielectric permittivity, causing the for...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-invasive geophysical technique widely used in civil engineering, archaeology and shallow geology. Radar images of the inner media provides information about inner

This paper presents a comparative review study on ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna technology for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) applications. The proposed antenna designs for UWB ground penetrating radar include a bow-tie antennas, Vivaldi antennas, horn antennas, planar antennas, tapered slot antennas, dipole antennas, and spiral antennas. Furthermore a comprehensive study in terms of operating f...

Bridge decks deteriorate over time as a result of freezing-and-thawing, heavy use, and water penetration resulting in internal defects. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) can be used as a non-destructive method for detecting such defects. Unfortunately, reflections from closely spaced objects overlap which prevents the accurate estimation of the round-trip travel time of GPR waves to the closely sp...

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. This research has many real world applications such as remote sensing, geology, medicine and civil. The proposed method starts with two dimensional 2D image preprocessing for each slice. The preprocessing involves ...

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Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been widely used in geologic, hydrogeologic, and civil engineering purposes. Correlated with geological exposures and trenches, GPR data can offer detail subsurface information to past earthquakes investigation. McClymont et al. [2][3] show very good performance of GPR for fault characterization. In this paper, we show an example of practical application of GP...