Detection of water in an airport tarmac using SFCW ground penetrating radar

Author

Farquharson, G. ; Langman, A. ; Inggs, M.R.

Author_Institution

Radar Remote Sensing Group, Cape Town Univ., Rondebosch, South Africa

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1749

Abstract

This paper presents a study to determine whether ground penetrating radar (GPR) could be used to map the subsurface water below the surface of the main runway at Cape Town International Airport. The radar used was a prototype stepped frequency continuous wave radar developed at the University of Cape Town. Various affected areas were scanned and compared with core samples. The data was processed using two simple heuristic algorithms. These results are presented and conclusions are drawn based on known structure of the runway

Keywords

CW radar; airports; geophysical techniques; hydrological techniques; moisture measurement; radar applications; remote sensing by radar; terrain mapping; 1 to 2 GHz; Cape Town International Airport; SFCW; South Africa; airport; geophysical measurement technique; ground penetrating radar; heuristic algorithm; hydrology; moisture; radar remote sensing; runway; stepped frequency continuous wave radar; subsurface water; tarmac; terrain mapping; water content; Airports; Asphalt; Cities and towns; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; Permittivity measurement; Radar detection; Radar remote sensing; Spaceborne radar; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.772083

Filename

772083