GPR Remote Sensing in Archaeology

✍ Scribed by Dean Goodman, Salvatore Piro (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Series: Geotechnologies and the Environment 9
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

GPR Remote Sensing in Archaeology provides a complete description of the processes needed to take raw GPR data all the way to the construction of subsurface images. The book provides an introduction to the “theory” of GPR by using a simulator that shows how radar profiles across simple model structures look and provides many examples so that the complexity of radar signatures can be understood. It continues with a review of the necessary radargram signal processes needed along with examples. The most comprehensive methodology to construct subsurface images from either coarsely spaced data using interpolation or from dense data from multi-channel equipment and 3D volume generation is presented, advanced imaging solutions such as overlay analysis are introduced, and numerous worldwide site case histories are shown. The authors present their studies in a way that most technical and non-technical users of the equipment will find essentials for implementing in their own subsurface investigations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Understanding GPR via a Simulator....Pages 11-36
Basic GPR Signal Processing....Pages 37-62
GPR Image Construction and Image Processing....Pages 63-100
Overlay Analysis....Pages 101-118
Imaging Over Sites with Topography and Vector Imaging....Pages 119-142
GPR Imaging on Historical Buildings and Structures....Pages 143-157
North America: GPR Surveying at Historic Cemeteries....Pages 159-174
Multi-channel GPR....Pages 175-185
Case Histories....Pages 187-227
Back Matter....Pages 229-233

✦ Subjects

Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Archaeology; Science Education