Ground Penetrating Radar: Novel Advances and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 313
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Exploration of the world below the surface has become more and more urgent over recent years. Additionally, there have been further development in tunnel prediction, mining area and water prospecting, and underground diseases detection. Accordingly, these fields have put forward higher requirements for the rapidity, accuracy, and non-destructiveness of geophysical detection methods. The research on ground penetrating radar (GPR) has become more and more attractive and a number of novel advances and applications have emerged. GPR is a radio frequency technology based on detection of the differences in the electromagnetic properties (dielectric constant, electrical conductivity, magnetic permeability) of different underground media. The electromagnetic wave emitted by the transmitting antenna propagates in the ground, scattered by geological bodies, and received by the receiving antenna. After analysis and imaging, the shape and distribution of the geological bodies can be judged.
In the extensive papers, there are many creative advances in antennas and imaging methods of GPR, in radar instrumentation, for example, full-polarization ground penetrating radar, multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) GPR, borehole radar, etc.; and in imaging methods, migration imaging, full waveform inversion imaging, deep learning imaging, etc. The applications of these instrumentation and methods include disease detection of tunnels, highways, dams, underground pipelines, and the development of life detecting devices and other non-contact detecting equipment, all of which have achieved considerable results.
In this Special Issue, we are inviting you to share your latest research exploring novel advances and applications of GPR.
Dr. Jing Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ground penetrating radar
- radar imaging
- antennas
- non-destructive detection
- disease detection
- life detecting
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