Clutter Reduction Based on Apex Shifted Radon Transform in Sub-surface Forward-Looking Ground Penetrating Radar

In this paper a method is proposed to reduce none-apex hyperbola clutter due to target being located at the outside of imaging region and the inside of electromagnetic wave field in forward-looking ground penetrating radar (FLGPR) measurements. This clutter reduction method is based on apex shifted Radon transform which maps the none-apex hyperbola clutter in radargram to an energy congregate region in the tau-q domain. The none-apex hyperbola clutter is estimated by using a q band-pass filter and the inverse transform. Then the estimated clutter is removed by subtraction method. Finally, remainder surface clutter is reduced by scale and shift. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated with an experimental data set, and it increases the signal-to-clutter ratio of near-surface target