Contactless ground penetrating radar imaging: State of the art, challenges, and microwave tomography-based data processing

I Catapano, G Gennarelli, G Ludeno… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in contactless
ground-penetrating radar (GPR) systems. These devices offer many large-scale subsurface …

An overview on down-looking UAV-based GPR systems

C Noviello, G Gennarelli, G Esposito, G Ludeno… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Radar imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a dynamic research topic attracting
huge interest due to its practical fallouts. In this context, this article provides a …

Synthetic aperture radar imaging system for landmine detection using a ground penetrating radar on board a unmanned aerial vehicle

MG Fernández, YÁ López, AA Arboleya… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel system to obtain images from the underground based on
ground penetrating radar (GPR). The proposed system is composed by a radar module …

Learning to remove clutter in real-world GPR images using hybrid data

HH Sun, W Cheng, Z Fan - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The clutter in the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) radargram disguises or distorts
subsurface target responses, which severely affects the accuracy of target detection and …

A novel convolutional autoencoder-based clutter removal method for buried threat detection in ground-penetrating radar

E Temlioglu, I Erer - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The clutter encountered in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) systems seriously affects the
performance of the subsurface target detection methods. A new clutter removal method …

[HTML][HTML] Improvements in GPR-SAR imaging focusing and detection capabilities of UAV-mounted GPR systems

M García-Fernández, G Álvarez-Narciandi… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been an increasing research interest in the development of
airborne-based Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems for safe and fast detection of …

Autonomous airborne 3D SAR imaging system for subsurface sensing: UWB-GPR on board a UAV for landmine and IED detection

M Garcia-Fernandez, Y Alvarez-Lopez, F Las Heras - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
This work presents an enhanced autonomous airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
imaging system able to provide full 3D radar images from the subsurface. The proposed …

Improving RPCA-based clutter suppression in GPR detection of antipersonnel mines

X Song, D Xiang, K Zhou, Y Su - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detecting shallow buried antipersonnel mines (APMs) with a ground-penetrating radar
(GPR) is a challenging task because of clutter contamination, which often obscures the APM …

Performance analysis of tomographic methods against experimental contactless multistatic ground penetrating radar

M Ambrosanio, MT Bevacqua, T Isernia… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology for underground exploration consists of the
transmission of an electromagnetic signal in the ground for sensing the presence of buried …

Robust cascaded frequency filters to recognize rebar in GPR data with complex signal interference

Z Xiang, G Ou, A Rashidi - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
Automatically recognizing rebar by using ground penetrating radar (GPR) is an ongoing
research area that attracts much attention from researchers and practitioners. Existing …