"The capability of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). systems of accurately reconstructing the geometrical features of buried. objects when working in critical conditions is investigated. A. customized microwave tomographic approach is used to tackle the. imaging through the processing of comparative experimental and. synthetic GPR data. The ¯rst ones have been gathered in laboratory. controlled conditions, while the second ones have been obtained by. exploiting an ad-hoc implementation of a CAD tool. Attention is paid. to the signi¯cant case of `strong' scatterers having size comparable. to the wavelengths of the probing signal, and possibly located close. to the interface where the GPR antennas move. The results from. imaging point out the potential of the proposed approach, showing. in particular to which extent in challenging operational settings, it is. possible to recover also the information about the shape of metallic. targets in addition to their correct location and size."
Francesco, S., Ilaria, C., Pier Matteo, B., Lauro, S., Mattei, E., Pettinelli, E., et al. (2013). GPR ESTIMATION OF THE GEOMETRICAL FEATURES OF BURIED METALLIC TARGETS IN TESTING CONDI- TIONS. PROGRESS IN ELECTROMAGNETICS RESEARCH B, 49, 339-362 [10.2528/PIERB12120508].
GPR ESTIMATION OF THE GEOMETRICAL FEATURES OF BURIED METALLIC TARGETS IN TESTING CONDI- TIONS
LAURO, SEBASTIAN;MATTEI, ELISABETTA;PETTINELLI, Elena;
2013-01-01
Abstract
"The capability of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). systems of accurately reconstructing the geometrical features of buried. objects when working in critical conditions is investigated. A. customized microwave tomographic approach is used to tackle the. imaging through the processing of comparative experimental and. synthetic GPR data. The ¯rst ones have been gathered in laboratory. controlled conditions, while the second ones have been obtained by. exploiting an ad-hoc implementation of a CAD tool. Attention is paid. to the signi¯cant case of `strong' scatterers having size comparable. to the wavelengths of the probing signal, and possibly located close. to the interface where the GPR antennas move. The results from. imaging point out the potential of the proposed approach, showing. in particular to which extent in challenging operational settings, it is. possible to recover also the information about the shape of metallic. targets in addition to their correct location and size."I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
