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| Titel |
Time-Frequency Transform Techniques Applied to Ultra-wideband Ground-Penetrating Radar |
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M. Yedlin, A. Cresp, J. Y. Dauviganc, S. Gaffet, G. Sénéchal, N. Fortino, C. Pichot, I. Aliferis |
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EGU General Assembly 2009
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Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 11 (2009) |
| Datensatznummer |
250022317
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Background
Recently, Dauvignac et al [1] utilized a ground penetrating radar unit consisting of an exponentially tapered slot antenna (ETSA) of the Vivaldi type, connected to an Agilent vector network analyzer to obtain a densely-sampled profile in the anti-blast tunnel of LSBB (Low-Noise inter-Disciplinary Underground Science & Technology Laboratory) located in Rustrel, France. The frequency data, from 150 MHz to 2 GHz, was inverse Fourier-transformed to obtain the time dependent data. Simultaneously, the same profile was obtained using a RAMAC 500 MHz ground-penetrating radar unit. Initial comparison of both data sets was done in the time-domain. Data obtained from the ETSA will be inverted using a constrained least squares algorithm, in order that the depth-dependent permittivity can be inferred. As a quality control, the RAMAC data will also be inverted. The resulting permittivity profiles obtained in both inversions will be used to image water content over a depth of several meters.
Proposed Research
It is well-known, qualitatively in the ground penetrating radar literature that high frequencies appear at early times, but generally are attenuated at later times, essentially due to the skin effect. However, a signal-processing verification of this well-known result is needed. We propose to use the Stockwell or S transform [2] to determine the temporal location of frequencies in both of the foregoing datasets. The S transform, a short-time Fourier transform with a frequency-dependent window, will be described and applied to synthetic data. Then the application of the S transform to the RAMAC and ETSA data will be presented, after each data set has undergone the same pre-processing. The S transform is completely linear and preserves the phase of the data, which allows for easy interpretation of the operations of filtering, due to the linear inverse of the forward S transform. Thus the S transform is ideal for comparing the temporal distribution of frequency in these two datasets.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
[1] DAUVIGNAC J.-Y., N. FORTINO, G. SENECHAL, A. CRESP, M. YEDLIN, S. GAFFET, D. ROUSSET, and C. PICHOT, “Ultra-Wideband GPR Imaging of the Vaucluse Karst Aquifer”, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, Abstract #NS51A-08.
[2] STOCKWELL R. G., L. MANSINHA, R. P. LOWE, "Localization of the complex spectrum: the S transform", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol.44, n°4, pp 998-1001, April 1996. |
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