Combined Ground Penetrating Radar and Seismic System for Detecting Tunnels

Author

Scott, Waymond R., Jr. ; Counts, T. ; Larson, G.D. ; Gurbuz, A.C. ; McClellan, James H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

fYear

2006

fDate

July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006

Firstpage

1232

Lastpage

1235

Abstract

An experimental system to collect co-located ground penetrating radar (GPR) and seismic data was developed to investigate possibilities of using the sensors individually or in a cooperative manner to detect shallow tunnels. These sensors were chosen because they sense very different physical properties. The seismic sensor is sensitive to the differences between the mechanical properties of a tunnel and the soil while the GPR is sensitive to the dielectric properties. Raw and processed data from both sensors are presented.

Keywords

ground penetrating radar; seismology; soil; tunnels; dielectric properties; ground penetrating radar; seismic data; seismic sensor; shallow tunnel detection; soil mechanical properties; tunnel mechanical properties; tunnel physical properties; Antenna arrays; Data engineering; Dielectrics; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; Mechanical factors; Mechanical sensors; Radar detection; Sensor arrays; Soil;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9510-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2006.318

Filename

4241465