Advanced GPR for archaeological survey

Author

Sato, Mitsuhisa ; Doi, Kohei ; Takahashi, Koichi

Author_Institution

Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

1395

Lastpage

1398

Abstract

An array GPR system equipped with 8 transmitting and 8 receiving antennas has been developed at Tohoku University, Japan. It is a Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave system and operates at 50MHz-1.5GHz. The maximum speed of data acquisition is 7km/h, when the data is acquired every 1cm density. The system was tested in a few archaeological areas near Sendai, Japan. We could demonstrate objects buried at 1m can be clearly imaged by the system, and the data acquisition of 100m by 50m area can be carried out within 2 hours. The system will be used for rehabilitation of the area from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that attacked this region in March 2011.

Keywords

UHF antennas; VHF antennas; data acquisition; ground penetrating radar; radar imaging; radar receivers; radar transmitters; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; GPR array system; Great East Japan Earthquake; Sendai Japan; Tohoku University; Tsunami; archaeological survey; data acquisition; frequency 50 MHz to 1.5 GHz; receiving antenna; size 1 cm; stepped frequency continuous wave system; time 2 hour; transmitting antenna; velocity 7 km/h; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Cities and towns; Earthquakes; Ground penetrating radar; Radar antennas; Tsunami; 3DGPR; Archeological survey; Array GPR; Disaster mitigation; GPR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723044

Filename

6723044