Advanced image-processing technique for real-time interpretation of ground-penetrating radar images

✍ Scribed by L. Capineri; P. Grande; J. A. G. Temple

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 231 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0899-9457
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1098(1998)9:1<51::aid-ima7>3.0.co;2-q

✦ Synopsis

This work presents the development of an advanced and intensities owing to multiple reflections and inhomogeneous image analysis technique capable of locating buried objects by media between the object and the probe. These difficulties estabground-penetrating radar (GPR) images. The technique requires only lish the need to reduce the effort needed for image interpretation a small amount of operator intervention and is fast enough to provide by off-line image analysis techniques. quasi-engineering drawings in real time. The work is intended to sim-The work presented here describes an image analysis techplify the interpretation of the complex pattern found in GPR images. nique capable of locating the position of the objects producing A theoretical development of the method is presented. Results on the patterns in the image. The technique is based on a modified synthetic and real images from different buried objects are presented, version of the Hough transform that has been broadly used for and errors õ 7% on the object position are observed with laboratory line detection in gray-scale images [2]. We developed an efficient test objects.