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Title: 3-D SAR imaging for multistatic GPR
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a remote geophysical sensing method that has been applied in the localization of underground utilities, bridge deck survey, localization of landmines, mapping of terrain for aid in driverless cars, etc. Multistatic GPR can deliver a faster survey, wider spatial coverage, and multiple viewpoints of the subsurface. However, because of the transmit and receive antennas spatial offset, formation of 3D GPR image by simple stacking of the acquired A-scans is inaccurate. Also, averaging of different receivers data may lead to destructive interference of back-scattered waves due to different time delays implied by the spatial offset, so averaging does not lead to higher SNR in general. Furthermore, the energy back-scattered by scatter points are spread in hyperbolas in the GPR raw data. Migration or imaging algorithms are employed to increase SNR by focusing the hyperbolas. This focusing process also leads to better accuracy in target localization. In this paper, a computationally efficient synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging algorithm that properly integrates multistatic GPR data in both ground and air-coupled cases is presented. The algorithm is successfully applied on two synthetic datasets.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1640687 1647095
PAR ID:
10128886
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2019, Proceedings Volume 10980, Image Sensing Technologies: Materials, Devices, Systems, and Applications VI; 109801D (2019)
Volume:
10980
Page Range / eLocation ID:
53
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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