Fast 3D ground penetrating radar simulations for glaciers

Modeling ground penetrating radar (GPR) reflection data on glaciers with methods that require the discretization of the full subsurface domain is extremely computationally expensive because of the combination of a large domain size and the comparatively short wavelength of the signal. To address this issue, we build on and extend a previously...

Theory for 1D GPR data inversion for a dissipative layered medium

We present a data driven method of full waveform inversion in one dimension. This means that the inversion is carried out as a sequence of processing steps. The first step is known as Marchenko redatuming. In this step we retrieve focusing functions from the measured data. In the second step we isolate the last event in the focusing function to...

Reservoir monitoring using borehole radars to improve oil recovery: Suggestions from 3D electromagnetic and fluid modeling

The recently developed smart well technology allows for sectionalized production control by means of downhole inflow control valves and monitoring devices. We consider borehole radars as permanently installed downhole sensors to monitor fluid evolution in reservoirs, and it provides the possibility to support a proactive control for smart...

Efficient Implementation of GPR Data Inversion in Case of Spatially Varying Antenna Polarizations

Ground penetrating radar imaging from the data acquired with arbitrarily oriented dipole-like antennas is considered. To take into account variations of antenna orientations resulting in spatial rotation of antenna radiation patterns and polarizations of transmitted fields, the full-wave method that accounts for the near-, intermediate-, and...

Advantages of Electromagnetic Interferometry Applied to Ground-Penetrating Radar: Non-Destructive Inspection and Characterization of the Subsurface Without Transmitting Anything

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-destructive method that images the subsurface using radar. A transmitter generates a radar pulse. This signal propagates into the ground where it reflects against subsurface heterogeneities, and travels back to the surface. A receiver records the reflected signal. The reflected signal contains information...

Modeling of GPR data in a stack of VTI-layers with an analytical code

Interferometry by deconvolution of multicomponent multioffset GPR data

Interferometric techniques are now well known to retrieve data between two receivers by the cross correlation of the data recorded by these receivers. Cross-correlation methods for interferometry rely mostly on the assumption that the medium is loss free and that the sources are all around the receivers. A recently developed method introduced...

Weighted near-field focusing in an array-based GPR

This paper presents a 3-D imaging technique for an ultra-wideband (UWB) ground penetrating radar (GPR) with a single transmit antenna and a linear receive array. The video impulse GPR working in the frequency band of 0.3–3 GHz has been designed in IRCTR for landmine detection, i.e., for a near-field application. Installed on a vehicle it can...