GPR analysis of clayey soil behaviour in unsaturated conditions for pavement engineering and geoscience applications

Clay content is one of the primary causes of pavement damages, such as subgrade failures, cracks, and pavement rutting, thereby playing a crucial role in road safety issues as an indirect cause of accidents. In this paper, several ground-penetrating radar methods and analysis techniques were used to nondestructively investigate the...

Effect of antenna-medium coupling in the analysis of ground-penetrating radar data

Uniqueness and stability analysis of hydrogeophysical inversion for time-lapse ground-penetrating radar estimates of shallow soil hydraulic properties

Precise measurement of soil hydraulic properties at field scales is one of the prerequisites to simulate subsurface flow and transport processes, which is crucial in many research and engineering areas. In our study, we numerically analyze uniqueness and stability for integrated hydrogeophysical inversion of time-lapse, off-ground ground...

Fast evaluation of zero?offset Green's function for layered media with application to ground?penetrating radar

We propose an efficient integration path for the fast evaluation of the three?dimensional spatial?domain Green's function for electromagnetic wave propagation in layered media for the particular case of zero?offset, source?receiver proximal ground?penetrating radar (GPR) applications. The integration path is deformed in the complex plane of the...

Closed loop GPR data inversion for soil hydraulic and electric property determination

We propose an integrated electromagnetic-hydrodynamic inverse modeling approach for identifying field-scale unsaturated soil hydraulic properties and electric profiles from off-ground time-lapse ground-penetrating radar data. Hydrodynamic modeling based on the one-dimensional Richards' equation with homogeneous soil hydraulic parameters is used...

Analysis of air-launched ground-penetrating radar techniques to measure the soil surface water content

We analyze the common surface reflection and full-wave inversion methods to retrieve the soil surface dielectric permittivity and correlated water content from air-launched ground-penetrating radar (GPR) measurements. In the full-wave approach, antenna effects are filtered out from the raw radar data in the frequency domain, and full-wave...

A new integrated approach for characterizing the soil electromagnetic properties and detecting landmines using a hand-held vector network analyzer

The application of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in humanitarian demining labors presents two major challenges: (1) the development of affordable and practical systems to detect metallic and non-metallic antipersonnel (AP) landmines under different conditions, and (2) the development of accurate soil characterization techniques to evaluate soil...

Effect of soil roughness on the inversion of off-ground monostatic GPR signal for noninvasive quantification of soil properties

We report on a laboratory experiment that investigates the effect of soil surface roughness on the identification of the soil electromagnetic properties from full-wave inversion of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data in the frequency domain. The GPR system consists of an ultrawide band stepped-frequency continuous-wave radar combined with an off...