Super Resolution of Multi-Channel Ground Penetrating Radar Volume Data
by Zero-Interpolated 3D Kirchhoff Migration
Abstract
On-vehicle multi-channel Ground Penetrating Radar is attracting much
attention in infrastructure maintenance field. Besides the key benefits
of highspeed 3D subsurface data acquisition, basic problems such as data
discontinuity due to use of multiple antennas and sparse observation
that arises aliasing have been a problem. This study proposes easily
applicable but effective method to solve these problems. For the first
issue, calibration in each channel was done by improved Sparse Blind
Deconvolution (SBD) method proposed in previous research. It was found
that disuse of low-intensity frequency band provides better estimation
of transmitted waves. For the second issue, super resolution method was
proposed. It interpolates zeros in between sparsely observed data and
then apply synthetic aperture processing. Zero insertion is an operation
that restores high frequencies, which makes it possible to restore
frequency components above the Nyquist frequency under certain
conditions. The method was confirmed to be effective on real data.