A UWB impulse surface penetrating radar system for pavement evaluation

Author

Lei, Wentai ; Su, Yi ; Huang, Chunlin ; Liu, Liye

Author_Institution

Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2004

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

197

Abstract

An advanced UWB impulse surface penetrating radar (SPR) system-RadarEye is introduced in This work. It provides high resolution pavement thickness estimation and subsurface objects imaging for civil structures inspection. Super resolution time delay estimation algorithm based on wavelet transform and TAM-BP imaging algorithm are presented with high accuracy on layer thickness estimation and high spatial resolution on subsurface imaging. Both indoor and outdoor experiments show the feasibility of this system.

Keywords

delays; ground penetrating radar; inspection; radar imaging; radar resolution; thickness measurement; ultra wideband radar; wavelet transforms; SPR system; TAM-BP imaging algorithm; UWB impulse radar; civil structure inspection; pavement thickness estimation; radareye; spatial resolution; subsurface object imaging; super resolution time delay estimation algorithm; surface penetrating radar system; wavelet transform; Delay effects; Delay estimation; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; Radar imaging; Receiving antennas; Road transportation; Spatial resolution; Transmitting antennas; Ultra wideband radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrawideband and Ultrashort Impulse Signals, 2004 Second International Workshop

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8673-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UWBUS.2004.1388099

Filename

1388099