RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSOR TO DETECT AND CLASSIFY SUBSURFACE ANOMALIES

The purpose of this project was to enhance and automate the detection and classification of roadway subsurface layer interfaces and anomalies with the use of ground penetrating radar (GPR). The project has resulted in a personal computer based GPR evaluation and analysis tool which analyzes road pavement layer thickness and characteristics of potential anomalous subsurface pavement regions in a rapid and semi-automated manner. This final report summarizes work performed on the project, the design leading to the GPR software evaluation and analysis tool, and operation and application examples using that tool. An Operator's Manual for the software tool is in a separately bound publication, which is an appendix to this report.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Florida, Gainesville

  Electronic Communications Laboratory, P.O. Box 140245
  Gainesville, FL  United States  32514-0245

  Florida Department of Transportation

  Haydon Burns Building, 605 Suwanee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32301

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1999-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 29 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Geophysical prospecting; Ground penetrating radar; Interfaces; Pavement layers; Software; Thickness
• Uncontrolled Terms: Anomalies; Subsurface surveying
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I41: General Soil Surveys;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00784637
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: WPI 0510778,, Final Report
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 29 2000 12:00AM