Application of migration to ground probing radars

Author

Hussain, Rafat T. ; Sandham, William A. ; Chapman, Roy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, UK

fYear

1988

fDate

11-14 Apr 1988

Firstpage

1208

Abstract

The problem of improving horizontal resolution in a ground probing radar (GPR) image is discussed using a spatial deconvolution technique known as migration. Migration is used extensively in seismic exploration data processing to position geological reflectors and diffractors at their correct locations in the object (x-z) space, rather than with respect to their locations in the image (x-t) space. The generation of accurate, synthetic GPR pipe images is described, and improvement in the spatial resolution of a synthetic image is demonstrated using a seismic migration algorithm

Keywords

computerised picture processing; geophysical techniques; radar applications; radar theory; GPR; diffractors positioning; geological reflectors positioning; ground probing radars; horizontal resolution; image; migration; pipe images; seismic exploration data processing; spatial deconvolution; spatial resolution; synthetic image; Ground penetrating radar; Holography; Image resolution; Polyethylene; Radar applications; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Signal processing algorithms; Signal resolution; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1988. ICASSP-88., 1988 International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1988.196817

Filename

196817