IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP12538-PRT 978-1-4673-2662-9

2012 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR 2012)

Shanghai, China 4-8 June 2012

Table of Contents

Special lectures

Simulation of Radar Sounder Echoes and Inversion for Mars Layered Media 3 Ya-Qiu Jin, Chuan Liu & Tianling Wang

GPR Profiles of Partially to Completely Unstratified Geologic Formations 7 Steven Arcone & W. Tad Pfeffer

The Search for the Lost Graves of the Chinese Miners in Hailey, Idaho, USA 13 John H.Bradford

GPR for Disaster Mitigation and Beyond 17 Motoyuki Sato

Theme 1-GPR Wave Interaction with the Earth

Integrated use of GPR and TDR for soil permittivity evaluation 23 Giuseppe Cannazza, Andrea Cataldo, Giovanni Leucci, Raffaele Persico & Francesco Soldovieri

Decomposing GPR Images in a Variation Approach 28 Yishuo Huang, Shang-Yuh Lin, Jie-Chun Yang & Shengmin Wu

Study on the effect of LNAPL pollution to soil complex permittivity 34 Hongli Li, Qi Lu, Xuan Feng, Cai Liu, Wenjing Liang & Lilong Zou

Lateral Waves in Ground Penetrating Radar Applications 39 Chi-Chih Chen

Near-field modeling of radar antennas for wave propagation in layered media: when 42 models represent reality Sébastien Lambot, Anh Phuong Tran & Frédéric André

Characterizing a low-velocity waveguide using crosshole GPR full-waveform inversion 47 A.Klotzsche, J. van der Kruk, H. Vereecken & G.A. Meles

Theme 2-Novel GPR Systems and Antennas

Developing Moving Platform Mounted Polarimetric GPR System 53 Xuan Feng, Qiao Wang, Qi Lu, Cai Liu, Wenjing Liang, HongLi Li, Qianci Ren, Yue Yu & ZhengShu

Application of LTD-2100 Ground Penetrating Radar to Advanced Forecast in Diversion 57 Tunnel of Jinping Hydroelectric Power Station Yuanxin Wang, Zhao Zhang, Qiang Ren, Yanmin Wu & Zhenghui Peng

Processing of Holographic Subsurface Radar Data 62 Andrey Zhuravlev, Sergey Ivashov, Igor Vasiliev & Vladimir Razevig

Development of a High Speed UWB GPR for Rebar Detection Tian Xia, Xianlei Xu, Anbu Vekatachalam & Dryver Huston

66

A Novel Compact UWB Ground Penetrating Radar System 71 Shengbo Ye, Jie Chen, Lihua Liu, Changchun Zhang & Guangyou Fang

A Coded Pulse UWB Radar System Design for Life Sign Detection 76 Wei Wang, Ziwei Chen, Jie Chen, Qunying Zhang & Guangyou Fang

Life Detection and Location by MIMO Ultra Wideband Radar 80 Yanyun Xu, Shiyou Wu, Jinjin Shao, Chongchao Zhang, Jie Chen & Guangyou Fang

The communication cables detection using radar in the sewers construction 85 Yang fang, Wang Xiaowen

Study of UWB Half-Ellipse Antenna With A Shallow Backed Cavity In Vital Sign 89 Detection Jin Jin Shao, Chao Chen, Jie Chen, Yi Cai Ji, Guang You Fang & He Jun Yin

Vehicle GPR in the maintenance of the high-speed railway 93 Jie Liu & Qianli Zhang

UWB in-situ Soil Permittivity Probe with A Novel Iterative Permittivity Calibration 98 Method Ming Chen & Chi-Chih Chen

Development of Radar antennas for the Detection of Voids behinds Tunnel Liner and 103 Laboratory Experiments Wang Jifei, Xie Xiongyao & Huang Hongwei

The performance test of U-shape antenna applied in tunnel detection 109 Chan Yuenping, Huang Hongwei & Zhao Yonghui

High-resolution penetrating radar for ice thickness 115 measurement Wang Wenpeng, Zhao BoLiu, Xiaojun, Yu Jian & Fang Guangyou

Improvement of Target Imaging Quality by Multi-polarization MIMO GPR 119 Zhaofa Zeng, Jing Li , Ling Huang & Fengshan Liu

The Design of an Intrinsically Safe Ground Penetrating Radar for Detecting Abandoned 125 Workings in Underground Coal Mines Jan Francke, Vincent Utsi & K.K.K. Singh

Design and Optimization of the Antenna Applied for Detecting the Voids in Tunnel 131 Lining by GPR Zhigao Wang, Xiongyao Xie & Motoyuki Sato

Accurate Thickness Estimation of a Backfill Grouting Layer behind Shield Tunnel Lining 137 by CMP Measurement using GPR Hai Liu & Xiongyao Xie

Holographic radar: A strategy for uneven surfaces L. Capineri, F. Fiesoli & C. Windsor

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Development of Handheld GPR Using FieldFox Network Analyzer and Its Application in 146 Detecting Structure of Qian Tang River Dike, Hang Zhou, China F.N. Kong, R.K. Bhasin, L.Z. Wang & Y.G. Zhang

Wideband Antenna Array for Step-Frequency Ground Penetrating Radar 152

Egil Eide, Tina Kieβling & Jukka Typpö

HERA-G - A new helicopter GPR based on gated stepped frequency technology 156 Yvonne Krellmann & Gunnar Triltzsch

Robot Mounted GPR for Pipe Inspection 160 Csaba Ékes & Boriszlav Neducza

Traffic-speed 3-D Noise Modulated Ground Penetrating Radar (NM-GPR) 165 Bryan A Reeves & Wayne B Muller

Software Defined Radar: An Open Source Platform for Prototype GPR Development 172 Jonathon Ralston & Chad Hargrave

Using polarimetric GPR antenna to characterize hidden cylinders 178 I. Catapano, L. Crocco, G. Gennarelli, F. Soldovieri, L. Orlando & B. Renzi

Theme 3-Numerical Modeling

Qualitative model of spatio-temporal radiation pattern of GPR antenna 187 F. D. Edemskiy, A. V. Popov & S. A. Zapunidi

Finite Element GPR Numerical Simulations Based on Mixed Boundary Conditions 192 De-shan Feng & Cheng-shen Chen

Element free method forward modeling for GPR based on improved sarma absorbing 196 boundary Dai Qian-wei, Feng De-shan, Wang Hong-hua & Chen De-peng

Numerical Simulations and Analysis for Airborne Ground Penetrating Radar 200 Lei Fu, Sixin Liu & Lanbo Liu

Accelerating Three-dimensional Electromagnetic Wave Modeling in Dispersive Media 204 with Staggered-grid Fourier Pseudospectral Method on Graphics Processing Unit Guihua Long, Gang Tian & Jian Jiang

Simulation and Signal Processing of UWB radar for Human Detection in Complex 209 Environment Jing Li, Lanbo Liu, Zhaofa Zeng & Fengshan Liu

Simulation and Analysis of GPR Signal Based on Stochastic media model 214 Zimeng Jiang, Zhaofa Zeng, Jing Li, Fengshan Liu & Fengshou Wu

Study of GPR Image Characteristics of Dams’ Hidden Weak Points Shuangcheng Ge, Boyong Sun, Yonghui Zhao, Jun Chen & Lanbo Liu

220

Investigation of the directivity of a commercial Ground-Penetrating Radar antenna using 226 a Finite-Difference Time-Domain antenna model Craig Warren & Antonios Giannopoulos

Incorporating dispersive electrical properties in FDTD GPR models using a general 232 Cole-Cole dispersion function Iraklis Giannakis, Antonios Giannopoulos & Nigel Davidson

Quantifying GPR Responses 237 Nectaria Diamanti, Peter Annan & David Redman

The Numerical Simulation Study on Ground Penetrating Radar Detection of the Typical 243 Adverse Geological Structure Rao Hu, Lixun Lu & Shuiqiang Wang

Radar Wave Simulation Using Three-dimensional Multi-region Pseudospectral Time 248 Domain Algorithm with Directional Kirchhoff Integration Surface Zhao Zhao, Lanbo Liu & Benjamin Barrowes

Theme 4-Inverse Problems

Multiscale analysis of noisy 3D GPR data using the directional continuous wavelet 257 transform. Sid-Ali Ouadfeul & Leila Aliouane

Increasing the Efficiency of Inversion Method by using Data Compression Technique 262 during Reconstruction Hui Zhou & Qingqing Li

Crosshole radar tomographic inversion without ray tracing 268 Fei Wang, Sixin Liu & Xinxin Qu

Multi-parameter Spectral Inversion for GPR Signals of Subsurface Layered Media 274 Huang zhonglai & Zhang jianzhong

Generalized Hough Transform and ANN for subsurface cylindrical object location and 281 parameters inversion from GPR data Wei Li, Huilin Zhou & Xiaoting Wan

An Automatic Framework using Space-Time Processing and TR-MUSIC for Subsurface 286 imaging Sihao Tan, Huilin Zhou & Lei Xiang

On electromagnetic transmission eigenvalues 291 Tiara Turner, Jiguang Sun & Fengshan Liu

Soil moisture estimation using full-wave inversion of near- and far-field 296 ground-penetrating radar data: A comparative evaluation

Anh Phuong Tran, François Wiaux & Sébastien Lambot

Computer Tomography as Imaging Technique for Ground Penetrating Radar - A Case Study Berthold Panzner Andreas J ostingmeier & Abbas Omar

Positioning accuracy of an automatic scanning system for GPR measurements on concrete structures Christiane Trela, Thomas Kind & Marcus Schubert

Airborne GPR surveys via tomographic imaging: an analysis of the reconstruction capabilities Ilaria Catapano, Lorenzo Crocco, Francesco Soldovieri, Riccardo Lanari, Claudia Facchinetti, Francesco Longo, Roberto Formaro, Giovanni Alberti, Doroteo Adirosi & Raffaele Persico

Utilities Mapping via Linear Sampling Method Ilaria Catapano, Francesco Soldovieri, Lorenzo Crocco, Loreto Di Donato & Raffaele Persico

GPR Full-Waveform Inversion of Chloride Gradients in Concrete A.Kalogeropoulos, J. Hugenschmidt, J.van der Kruk, J. Bikowski & E. Brühwiler

301 305 310 315 320

Full-waveform inversion of GPR data in frequency-domain X. Yang, J. van der Kruk, J. Bikowski, P. Kumbhar, H. Vereecken & G.A. Meles

324

Theme 5-Data Processing and Interpretation

Comparison of Different Methods for Reconstruction of Microwave Holograms Recorded by the Subsurface Radar Vladimir Razevig, Sergey Ivashov, Igor Vasiliev & Andrey Zhuravlev

Improving Iamging Achieved by GPR Offset from the Air-Ground Interface Xuan Feng, Qiao Wang, Qi Lu, Cai Liu,Wenjing Liang, HongLi Li, Qianci Ren, Yue Yu & Motoyuki Sato

Sidelobe Suppression Technique for SFCW GPR Using the Sparsity Property of the Received Signal Lele Qu, Tianhong Yang, Xuan Li & Pingping Huang

Signal Processing Techniques in Ionosphere Sounding and Trace Extraction from Ionograms Ziwei Chen, Wei Wang, Jinsong Wang, Shun Wang & Guangyou Fang

Support Vector Regression method applied to thin pavement thickness estimation by GPR Cédric Le Bastard, Vincent Baltazart & Yide Wang

Capabilities of the wavelet analysis of GPR data to determine the rock moisture in frozen rock mass

331 336 340 345 349 354

Kirill Sokolov

One Dimension Occam Inversion with High- Frequency Electromagnetic Field Magnitude

Jiabin YAN & Qianwei DAI

GPR data analysis in time-frequency domain Wai-Lok Lai & Chi-Sun Poon

GPR clutter noise separation by statistical independency promotion Wenchao Chen, Wei Wang, Jinghuai Gao, Jin Xu & Wenbing Wang

GPR Imaging Algorithm of Targets Located in Layered Mediums Based on CS Qingqing Yang, Anxue Zhang, Yansheng Jiang & Yongjun Wang

Subsurface Target Identification Using Phase Profiling of Impulse GPR Data V. Mikhnev, M.-K. Olkkonen & E. Huuskonen

GPR Identification of Voids inside Concrete Based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) Algorithm Xiongyao Xie, Pan Li & Lanbo Liu

Soil Layer Thickness Detection in Land Rearrangement Project by Using GPR Data Xianlei Xu, Fang Wang & Kai Xin, Xin Fu

Mining Sea Turtle Nests Vladimir Ermakov, Artur Dubrawski, Tony Dohi, Jessica Hodgins & Anne Savage

A Multilayer Detection/Tracking Algorithm Based On Hidden Markov Model Shi Zheng, Anxue Zhang, Yansheng Jiang & Yongjun Wang

Experimental Research on Relationships between Dielectric Constant of Cement Concrete Materials and Measuring Frequency Zhong Yanhui, Zhang Bei, Shi Wenbo & Wang Tao

Integrated modeling of near-field ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction data for reconstructing multilayered media Frédéric André, Anh Phuong Tran, Nicolas Mourmeaux & Sébastien Lambot

Dynamic Groundwater Level Estimation by the Velocity Spectrum Analysis of GPR Hai Liu & Motoyuki Sato

Kirchhoff Migration For Specifying Velocity Model In Ground Penetrating Radar Method Nguyen Thanh Van, Le Van Anh Cuong, Dang Hoai Trung, Vo Minh Triet,

Huynh Kim Tuan & Nguyen Van Giang

Topographic Correction of GPR Profile Based on Odometer and Inclinometer Data Vitalii Prokhorenko, Volodymyr Ivashchuk, Sergiy Korsun, Sergiy Musiyachenko & Vladyslav Borodavka

358 362 367 371 376 381 387 393 399 403 407 413 419

425

Time-Frequency Dependent Filtering of Step-Frequency Ground Penetrating Radar Data Jacopo Sala, Helge Penne & Egil Eide

430

What Is The True Time Range of a GPR System? 436 Andrew D. Strange & Richard J. Yelf

Theme 6-Evaluation of Mining, Tunneling, Concrete and Pavements Investigation of sinkholes on the roads by GPR: Application to HCM city, Vietnam 443 Nguyen Van Giang, Nguyen Thanh Van, Dang Hoai Trung, Jadwiga Jarzyna, Jerzy Zietek & Tomecka Sylwia Suchon

ATRAS – An automated GPR system for data acquisition and storage for roads and 448 bridges Johannes Hugenschmidt & Philipp Fürholz

An automatic algorithm for multi-defect classification inside tunnel using SVM 454 Lei Xiang,Hui-lin Zhou & Si-hao Tan

The Role of Ground Penetrating Radar in Bauxite Resource Evaluations 459 Jan Francke

Underground GPR measurements for spatial investigations in a salt dome 464 V. Gundelach, N. Blindow, U. Buschmann & C. Salat

Application and Analysis on Structure Exploration of Coal Seam by Mine Ground 469 Penetrating Radar Pingsong Zhang, Yongsheng Li, Yonghui Zhao & Liquan Guo

GPR detection of saturated areas into concrete in the presence of a water gradient 473 Arnaud Louis, Audrey Vander Wielen, Luc Courard & Frédéric Nguyen

Non-destructive evaluation of shield tunnel condition using GPR and 3D laser scanning 479 Xiongyao Xie & Chenchao Zeng

GPR Similarity Criteria and Model Experimental Study on Artificial Freezing 485 Engineering Lei Song, Jiahui huang, Weihao Yang, Xiaojun Zhang & Haipeng Liu

Bridge deck survey with high resolution Ground Penetrating Radar 489 Alessandro Simi, Guido Manacorda & Andrea Benedetto

Investigation of voids and cavities in Bored Tunnels using GPR 496 Jurij Karlovšek, Alexandar Scheuermann & David J Willimas

Comparing Traffic Speed Deflectometer and Noise-Modulated Ground Penetrating Radar 502 data for rapid road pavement investigations Wayne B Muller & Bryan A Reeves

Frequency-dependant dielectric parameters of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete 510 Jurij Karlovšek, Norman Wagner & Alexandar Scheuermann

Quantitative moisture measurement of road pavements using 3D Noise-Modulated GPR Wayne Muller, Alexander Schuermann & Bryan Reeves

517

Application of GPR Technique and Research on High-speed Railway Tunnel 524 Xiaolei Xiong, Qicai Zhou, Jie Zhou, Yunjie Ma & Kai Wang

Detection of thin layers into concrete with static and CMP measurements 530 Audrey Van der Wielen, Luc Courard & Frédéric Nguyen

Assessing the influence of moisture on the dielectric properties of asphalt 536 Dr Robert Evans, Dr Matthew Frost & Richard Morrow

Research on Dielectric Properties of Asphalt Concrete with GPR 542 Sun Ji-tong, Guo Xiu-jun & Zhang Xiao-wei

GPR quality control of building and technical state of exploited autoroads in conditions 546 of permafrost Savvin D, Fedorova L & Omelyanenko A

GPR as a crack detection tool for asphalt pavements possibilities and limitations 551 N. Ahmad, M. Wistuba & H. Lorenzl

Nondestructive Detecting Thickness of Main Concrete Channel Lining in East Line 556 Project of China South to North Water Diversion Using GPR Xiujun Guo, Dawei Zhu & Miao Wang

Monitoring Accelerated Corrosion in Chloride Contaminated Concrete with Ground 561 Penetrating Radar S.-X. Hong, W.L. Lai & R. Helmerich

Georadar researches at exploitation оf the mineral deposits of permafrost 567 Fedorova L.L. & Kulyandin G.A.

Array Processing for Underground Tunnel Detection 571 Xie,P., Grant,S., Putnam,N., Anderson N. & Nasseri-Moghaddam,A.

Theme 7-Archaeology, Diagnostic of historical buildings Non – destructive and laboratory diagnostic study on the mosaic of the crypt of St. 579 Nicholas Calia A., Colangiuli D., Leucci G., Matera L., Lettieri M., Persico R. & Sileo M.

A multidisciplinary non-destructive approach to analyze moisture in historic masonry 585 structures M. Solla, S. Lagüela, M. X. Álvarez, H. Lorenzo & B. Riveiro

Ground penetrating radar imaging of the late Quaternary Pyramid Valley lake deposit, 591 North Canterbury, New Zealand: correlation with paleoclimatic records and the stratigraphic sequence David C. Nobes, Alison G. Johnston, Richard N. Holdaway & Travis W. Horton

The 2011 GPR Surveys in the Archaeological Site of Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey) 595

Leucci G., Di Giacomo G., Ditaranto I., Miccoli I. & Scardozzi G.

A comparative study of different strategies to focus GPR images collected from archaeological investigations along the “Basilian monks’ Path of Faith” (Aspromonte National Park Southern Calabria, Italy) Giovanni Angiulli, Domenico De Carlo & Tommaso Isernia

Integrated non invasive tests for the architectural restoration of the Tricarico Cathedral Giovanni Leucci, Nicola Masini, Raffaele Persico & Francesco Soldovieri

Ground-penetrating radar prospection over a gallery network resulting from Neolithic flint mine N. Boubaki, A. Saintenoy, S.Kowlaċzyk, R. Mieszkowski, F. Welc, J.Budziszewski &

P. Tucholka

To find post holes Akihiro KANEDA, Yasushi Nishimura & Kazuhiko Nishiguchi

GPR diagnosis of historical and cultural objects Evgeny Zverev, Alexandra Urusova, Andrey Ivanov & Maxim Shiribokov

Ground Penetrating Radar Investigations at Ahichhatra: An attempt to identify buried subsurface structures S. Sravanthi, Javed N Malik & BhuvanVikrama

602 607 610

616 620 625

Theme 8-Sedimentology, Hydrology, and Glaciology

Permafrost Soil Water Content Evaluation Using Ground-Penetrating Radar in Amdo Catchment, Central Tibetan Plateau Yingzhao Ma, Yinsheng Zhang, S.B. Farhan & Yanhong Guo

Application of GPR Surface Reflection Method for Estimating Soil Water Content of Bare Soil Gao Shengguo, Zhu Zhongli, Jiao Qishun & Du Fan

GPR velocity and amplitude analyses to characterize the stratigraphy and estimate the ice density: an example from the Eastern Glacier of Mt. Canin, Italy E. Forte, M. Pipan & R.R. Colucci

Ground penetrating radar imaging of Auckland volcanic surge deposits David C. Nobes, Darren M. Gravley, Brittany D. Brand, Simon H. Bloomberg, Thomas O. Garden & Jan M. Lindsay

Multi-Channel GPR to Assess the Influence of Shallow Structural Heterogeneity on Spatio-Temporal Variations of Near-surface Soil Water Content Xicai Pan, Patrick Klenk, Kurt Roth, Jiabao Zhang, Ping Huang & Dan He

Airborne GPR sounding of two deep temperate glaciers -examples from Northern Patagonian Icefield Norbert Blindow, Christina Salat & Gino Casassa

633 639 646 653 659 664

Sedimentary architecture and ground penetrating radar (GPR) analysis of sandy-gravel esker deposits in Kozlow, Central Poland Anna Lejzerowicz, Sebastian Kowalczyk & Anna Wysocka

670

Development of a Micro-strip Resonator Soil Moisture Sensor 676 Chen Guo & Richard C. Liu

Surface Ground-penetrating Radar monitoring of water infiltration inside a ring 680 infiltrometer Emmanuel Léger & Albane Saintenoy

GPR Prospection in the Ossoue Glacier (Pyrenees) 684 Del Río, M. Rico, I. Serrano, E. Tejado & J. J.

Time-lapse borehole radar measurements in a sandy groundwater system during a winter 689 recharge cycle E. Strobach, B. D. Harris, J. C. Dupuis, A. W. Kepic & M. Martin

Radar Suitability in Aeolian Sand Dunes- a Global Review 695 Dominic Tatum & Jan Francke

Estimation of soil hydraulic parameters by integrated hydrogeophysical inversion of 701 time-lapse GPR data measured at Selhausen, Germany Khan Zaib Jadoon, Lutz Weihermüller, Harry Verrecken & Sébastien Lambot

Infuence of GPR measurement conditions on depth penetration and resolution of radar 707 images illustrating lowland valley alluvial fill (field experiment) Marcin Slowik

Exploring Spatial Patterns of Soil Water Content in the Urumqi Region with 713 Ground-Penetrating Radar Patrick Klenk, Kurt Roth, Yanfang Qin & Kefa Zhou

Unconformities, Cosets, and Folds within the East Antarctic Ice Sheet: 3.2 MHz Profiles 718 from a Megadunes Region of East Antarctica Steven Arcone & Robert Jacobel

Geophysical Characterization of Lava Flows at Shiraito Falls Near Mt. Fuji in Japan 724 using GPR Yusuke Yoshida, Hirotaka Saito, Masayuki Watanabe, Takafumi Kamitani & Yasuhide Muranaka

Assessment of groundwater contamination by landfill leachate with ground penetrating 728 radar N.S. Wijewardana, L.W. Galagedara & M.I.M. Mowjood

Investigation of the Lena River Ice Cover by GPR From Helicopter 733 Fedorov M.P., Fedorova L.L. & Omelyanenko A.V

Anthropogenic transformation of lowland river pattern and changes of spatial extent of 737

lakes inferred from ground-penetrating radar and remote sensing surveys(the Obra River,

Poland)

Marcin Słowik

GPR investigations of an island aquifer as a contribution to groundwater modelling Jan Igel, Thomas Günther, Hans Sulzbacher, Helga Wiederhold & Moritz Kuntzer

743

Theme 9-GeologyGeotechnical Engineering, Utilities Detection and

Mapping

Multi-frequency antennas to depict the multi-layer foundation of a building Luciana Orlando

An Analysis of Using Ground Penetrating Radar Refraction/Reflection Methods to Investigate Possible Fractures and Cavities in Concrete Sea Walls Chang Ping-Yu & Wang Min-Rui

Application of Ground Penetrating Radar to Inspect the Metro Tunnel Yu Hai-zhong, Ouyang Yu-feng & Chen Hong

Detection and Analysis of LNAPL Contaminated Siteby Integrated Time-Lapse GPR Surveys How-Wei Chen, Chung-Chi Fan, Shun-Yueh Chen & Che-Ming Lu

Agricultural ground penetrating radar response to deep cultivation across a fault scarp after the 4 September 2010 Darfield earthquake, Canterbury, New Zealand David C. Nobes, Thomas M. Wilson, Matt Cockcroft, Peter Almond & Zachary Whitman

A study of the interference stripe phenomenon caused by electromagnetic wave propagating in multi-layered medium Diao Qilong & Huang Chunlin

Environmental geological applications of ground penetrating radar Hongjun Guan, XinYe, Shuming Wang & Zhengdong Deng

Testing on Depth Profile of Seawall by Using the Method of Ground Penetrating Radar Pingsong Zhang, Yongsheng Li & Xiongyao Xie

Radius estimation of buried cylindrical objects using GPR - A case study N. Muniappan, E. P. Rao, A. V. Hebsur & G. Venkatachalam

Interpretation of GPR Response through FDTD Simulation and Response Surface Method (RSM) A. V. Hebsur, E. P. Rao, N. Muniappan & G. Venkatachalam

Liquid-gel type suspended matters boundary detection of fluid fertilizer inside PE tank using GPR and Seismic Crosshole method Seong-Jun Cho & Eunsuk Bang

751 755 759 764 769 774 779 785 789 795 801

Non-Destructive Inspection and Characterization of Track Bed with Microwaves 805

Guido Manacorda & Alessandro Simi

Experience of GPR application in oil-and-gas industry V. V. Kopeikin, P. A. Morozov, F. D. Edemskiy, D. E. Edemskiy, B. R. Pavlovskii & Yu. A. Sungurov

Application Research of Potential Failure Zone Detection for Seawall Using Ground Penetrating Radar Shuangcheng Ge, Minqiang Zhang, Guoqian Liang, Xiaohua Zhang, Chaoying Liu, Yonghui Zhao & Jun Chen

Quality control of stone blocks during quarrying activities Diego Arosio, Stefano Munda & Luigi Zanzi

Interdisciplinary experiences in the use of GPR in an urban complex area. The case of the City of Buenos Aire Lic. Bárbara Pasik & Lic. Melina López Calvo

Application of Ground Penetrating Radar to detect orientation of cavities and caverns developed due to tectonic implication in Baratang Island, Middle Andaman, India N. Ramanujam, P.Prasad, A.Vignesh, S.H.K.Murti, Qazi Akhter Rasool, Swapan.K.B, Chandrakant Ojha, A.J.Boopalan & P.Mothilal Yuvaraj

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey For Civil-Engineering Applications: Results From The Test Site S. Negri & T. A. M. Quarta

Pipe Condition Assessments Using Pipe Penetrating Radar Csaba Ékes & Boriszlav Neducza

Shallow Subsurface Mapping Of Active Faults Using GPR In The Seismically Active Kachchh Palaeo-Rift Basin, Western India: Implication For Neotectonic Activity Parul Joshi, D. M. Maurya, V. Chowksey & L. S. Chamyal

811 816 822 827 830 835 840 844

Theme 10-Demining and UXO

Performance of a Demining GPR Related to Soil Properties and Clutter Kazunori Takahashi, Jan Igel & Holger Preetz

3D Segmentation of Ground Penetrating Radar Data for Landmine Detection Dyana A, CH Srinivas Rao & Ramachandra Kuloor

Fusion of Correlated Decisions for GPR Based Buried Landmine Detection Tesfamariam, Gebremichael T., Dilip Mali & Abdelhak. M. Zoubir

A Strategy for Landmine Detection and Recognition Using Simulated GPR Responses Maria A. Gonzalez-Huici

853 858 864 871

Theme 11-Borehole Electromagnetic Wave Transmission Characteristics Research of Single-Borehole Radar 879

Chunguang Ma, Qing Zhao & Hongchun Yang

A Borehole Radar Prototype: Development and Testing Sixin Liu, Junjun Wu, Lei Fu, Fei Wang & Hang Dong

Analysis of a direct wave in directional borehole radar with a circular dipole array antenna Satoshi Ebihara & Keiji Onoda

Considerations of the Blind Region for Single-Borehole Bistatic and Monostatic Pulse Radars Jae-Hyoung Cho, Jong-Gwan Yook, Sang-Wook Kim & Se-Yun Kim

Distortion of Pulse Signatures Penetrated Obliquely Through Tunnel in a Cross-Borehole Pulse Radar Sang-Wook Kim , Jong-Sung Choi & Se-Yun Kim

Effect of Ferrite Beads on Reduction of Resonance of Thin Conducting Cylinder in a Water-filled Borehole Satoshi Ebihara & Kosuke Toma

A Decade of Directional Borehole Radar Services K. Siever, R. Elsen, S. Uchtmann & K. Behaimanot

883 887 892 897 901 906

Theme 12-SAR and Planetary Exploration

Kaguya Lunar Radar Sounder Observation of Sinus Iridum Takao Kobayashi, Seung Ryeol Lee & Jin Song Ping

Simulations for Martian subsurface’ detection with radar sounder Yu Zhang, Xiao-juan Zhang & Guang-you Fang

Modeling and Simulation for Groud Penetrating Radar Study of the Subsurface Sturture of the Moon Wenzhe Fa

913 917 922

Theme 13-Other

Localization of structural heterogeneities in refractory blocks using ground penetrating radar M. Boinet, P. Pires Franco, A. Crouzet & C. Norgeot

Propagation Characteristics of Joint Physical Simulation of Both Electromagnetic Wave and Ultrasonic Wave in Fractured Media Model Qiao Wang, Qi Lu, Wenjing Liang, Hongli Li, Xuan Feng, Cai Liu, Lilong Zou & Yue Yu

3D GPR imaging for paleoseismology in Central Appennines (Italy). M. Ercoli, C. Pauselli, C. Federico, A. Frigeri & E. Forte

Research on Measurement of Kunming Lake storage capacity with GPR Zhang Jin-song, Dong Zhi-hai & An Zhi-ming

929 933 937 943

A New Algorithm for through wall Human Respiration Monioring using GPR 947 Wenzhe Li, Xijing Jing, Zhao Li & Jianqi Wang

A simple method to determine permittivity and attenuation coefficient of media by 953 holographic radar Masaharu Inagaki

A Wavelet-based Strong Clutter Removal Technique for UWB Life Detection 957 Zhao Li, Xijing Jing, Wenzhe Li & Jianqi Wang

A Simple Strategy for Moving Target Imaging via an Experimental UWB Through-Wall 961 Radar Shiyou Wu, Kai Tan, Yanyun Xu, Jie Chen, Shengwei Meng & Guangyou Fang

An Efficient and Low-complexity Through Wall Moving Target Tracking Algorithm by 966 UWB Radar Kai Tan, Shiyou Wu, Jie Chen, Xiaojun Liu & Guangyou Fang

Ground-penetrating radar for correlation analysis of temporal soil moisture stability and 972 land-slope M.R. Mahmoudzadeh, M. Vanclooster, J. Minet & S. Lambot

Detecting Three Types of Contaminated Soil with Ground Penetrating Radar 976 Guo Xiujun, Wang Shuqiang & Wang Xianli

Integrative GPR Loss in a Discrete Random Medium Model: the Effect of Rough-Surface 981

and Subsurface Mie Scatterers

Lanbo Liu & Steven A. Arcone

Author Index 985