A Tomographic Approach for Helicopter-Borne Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging

Author

Catapano, Ilaria ; Crocco, Lorenzo ; Krellmann, Yvonne ; Triltzsch, Gunnar ; Soldovieri, Francesco

Author_Institution

Inst. for Electromagn. Sensing of the Environ. (CNR-IREA), Nat. Res. Council of Italy, Naples, Italy

Volume

9

Issue

3

fYear

2012

fDate

5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

378

Lastpage

382

Abstract

Airborne ground penetrating radar is a suitable tool to perform cost-effective surveys of the underground of large possibly nonaccessible areas. To tackle the imaging problem underlying this technology, we propose a regularized inverse scattering procedure. The capabilities of the approach to achieve a stable solution and its imaging performance are first assessed against synthetic data. Then, results obtained by processing data collected by means of a gated stepped frequency system mounted on a helicopter are provided as examples of on-field test cases.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; geophysical techniques; ground penetrating radar; tomography; airborne ground penetrating radar; gated stepped frequency system; helicopter-borne ground penetrating radar imaging; imaging problem; regularized inverse scattering procedure; synthetic data analysis; tomographic approach; Ground penetrating radar; Image reconstruction; Radar imaging; Scattering; Tomography; Airborne ground penetrating radar (GPR); inverse scattering; microwave tomography;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1545-598X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LGRS.2011.2169390

Filename

6069531