Ultra-Thin Asphalt Pavement Layer Interface Detection and Time Delay Estimation Based on MUSIC

Author

Zhou, Huilin ; Zhang, Qiang ; Zhu, Jian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Inf. Eng., Nanchang Univ., Nanchang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-destructive and non-intrusive subsurface investigation equipment which has been widely used in the field of civil engineering. Some challenges which GPR encountered for pavement subsurface inspection are: 1)GPR signal are easily corrupted by noise; 2) commercial GPR whose resolution is depended on system bandwidth, is not suitable for ultra-thin thickness estimation. This paper focus on using super-resolution MUSIC algorithm for ultra-thin pavement layer-interface detection and time-delay estimation compared to threshold detector and match filter.The results based on the simulation data under different conditions and measured GPR data are also presented.

Keywords

asphalt; civil engineering; filtering theory; ground penetrating radar; matched filters; roads; signal classification; civil engineering; ground penetrating radar; match filter; super-resolution MUSIC algorithm; threshold detector; time delay estimation; ultra-thin asphalt pavement layer interface detection; Delay effects; Estimation; Finite difference methods; Ground penetrating radar; Multiple signal classification; Signal to noise ratio; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3709-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2010.5600850

Filename

5600850