Review of Full-Polarimetric Ground Penetrating Radar

Xiaoxue Zhao; Zhiyang Wang

doi:10.63313/AERpc.9032

Authors

Xiaoxue Zhao School of Geosciences and Surveying and Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China Author
Zhiyang Wang School of Geosciences and Surveying and Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China Author

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https://doi.org/10.63313/AERpc.9032

Keywords:

Application of full polarization ground penetrating radar, Pauli Decomposition, Freeman Decomposition, H-Alpha Decomposition

Abstract

As an important means of underground information acquisition, the develop-ment of ground penetrating radar technology is rapidly evolving in the direction of multi-polarization information fusion. Full-polarimetric ground penetrating radar (FP-GPR) has attracted much attention because it can break through the limitations of traditional single-polarization mode. This technology fully char-acterizes the anisotropic characteristics, geometric structure and dielectric characteristics of the target body through the fully polarimetric scattering ma-trix, which significantly improves the target recognition accuracy and classifi-cation ability in complex media environments. Its core lies in the application of polarization decomposition technology : Pauli decomposition has the advantage of high resolution in the analysis of deterministic targets with clear physical meaning ; freeman decomposition is based on three types of models such as volume scattering and dihedral angle scattering to achieve classification without ground data support. The H-Alpha decomposition effectively analyzes the scat-tering characteristics of the linear target through the entropy value and the av-erage scattering angle parameter. At present, FP-GPR has been successfully ap-plied in military explosive disposal, underground engineering detection, Mars water ice exploration and other fields, and continues to expand to more complex scenarios. With the breakthrough of multi-band polarization data fusion tech-nology and intelligent interpretation algorithm, FP-GPR is accelerating to ex-tend in the fields of urban underground space digitization, geological disaster warning and deep space resource exploration, providing more adaptive solu-tions for high-precision underground exploration.

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