GPR'96

6th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar

September 30 - October 3, 1996




Technical Program



(Note: This program is tentative and subject to change. August 8, 1996)


------------------- 30 September (Monday)-------------------

(Room-1)	(Plenary Session)
9:20-9:40	Opening 	T.Suzuki
9:40-10:30	Application of Ground Penetrating Radar
		Olhoeft, G.
10:30-10:40	Introduction to GPR User's International  Committee	

(Room-1)	(Geology)
11:00-11:20	Three Dimensional GPR Imaging of a Fan-Foreset Delta : An Example from Brigham City, Utah, U.S.A.
		Jol, H.M.,Smith, D.G.,Meyers, R.A.
11:20-11:40	Application of GPR for 3-D Visualization of Geological and Structural Variation in a Limestone Formation	
		Sigurdsson, T.,Overgaard, T.
11:40-12:00	Three-Dimensional Mapping of Glaciofluvial and Deltaic Sediments in Central Switzerland Using Ground 	
		Penetrating Radar	
		Bueker, F.,Gurtner, M.,Horstmeyer, H.,Green, A.G.,Huggenberger, P.
12:00-12:20	Georadar Data From the Northern Sahara Desert: Problems and Processing Strategies	
		Lehmann, F.,Horstmeyer, H.,Green, A.,Sexton, J.,Coulybaly, M.

(Room-2)	(Antenna)
11:00-11:20	A Novel Technique of Modeling GPR Antennas	
		Huang, Z.,Demarest, K.,Plumb, R.
11:20-11:40	Numerical Modeling of GPR Data for Continuously Inhomogeneous Stratified Media	
		Slob, E.C.
11:40-12:00	Numerical Simulation of Antenna Radiation Patterns for GPR Modeling	
		Carcione, J.M.
12:00-12:20	Characteristics of Horn Antenna for Subsurface Radar	
		Moriyama, T.,Yamaguchi, Y.,Yamada, H.

(Room-1)	(Archaeology)	
13:20-13:40	Comparison of GPR Time Slices and Archaeological Excavations	
		Goodman, D.
13:40-14:00	GPR and Archaeology in Central London: A Trial Survey	
		McCann, W.A.,Mackie, P.C.,Brown, A.
14:00-14:20	The Use of Ground-Penetrating Radar to Map the Archaeology and Paleogeography of the  Ceren Site, 
		El Salvador	
		Conyers, L.B.
14:20-14:40	GPR Investigation to Restore an Ancient Village Buried by Volcanic Eruptions	
		Tohge, M.,Karube, F.,Kobayashi, M.,Tanaka, A.,Iahii, K.
14:40-15:00	Geophysical Studies in Hermitage Museum, the Char's Former Winter Palace, in St. Petersburg
		Papaioannou, M.G.,Papamarinopoulos, S.P.,Stefanopoulos, P.

(Room-1)	(Coal Mining)
15:20-15:40	Ground Probing Radar Applications in the Coal Industry
		Murray, W.,Williams, C.J.,Pollock, J.T.A.
15:40-16:00	Ground Penetrating Radar in Open Pit Coal Mines for Mapping of Overburden, 
		Seam Thickness and Guidance of Continuous Mining Machines
		Yelf, R.J.
	
(Room-2)	(Material Evaluation)
13:20-13:40	Dielectric Permittivity of Concrete Between 50MHz and 1GHz and GPR Measurements 
		for Building Materials Evaluation
		Robert, A.
13:40-14:00	Estimation of the Soil Permittivity and Conductivity by a GPR Antenna
		Wakita, Y.,Yamaguchi, Y.
14:00-14:20	Electrical Properties of Water in Soils
		Saarenketo, T.
14:20-14:40	Some Aspects on the Estimation of Electromagnetic Wave Velocities
		Fruhwirth, R.K.,Schmoeller, R.,Oberaigner, E.R.
14:40-15:00	Ground Penetrating Radar: The Setting of the Inverse Problem
		Saintenoy, A.,Tarantola, A.

(Room-2)	(Numerical Modeling)
15:20-15:40	Time-Domain Staggered-Grid Finite-Difference Simulation of GPR Data
		Chen, H.W.,Huang, T.M.
15:40-16:00	Statistical Characteristics of Reflections and Scatterings of Electromagnetic Radar Pulses 
		by Buried Objects in Random Underground Media
		Miyazaki, Y.,Jyonori, Y.,Sonoda, J.
16:00-16:20	Modeling the GPR Response to 2.5D Dispersive Media on Your PC
		Powers, M.H.
		
(Poster Session)
16:20 - 17:20


------------------- 1 October (Tuesday)-------------------

(Room-1)	(Borehole/Water)
9:00-9:20	Can Radar be Used to Predict Hydraulic Conductivity?
		Young, C.T.
9:20-9:40	Radar Facies of Unconsolidated Sediments in the Netherlands:   
		A Radar Stratigraphic Interpretation Method for Hydrogeology
		van Overmeeren, R.A.
9:40-10:00	Characterization of a Moderately Fractured Granitic Rock Using Single-Hole Radar Reflection, 
		Crosshole Radar Tomography, and Ground Penetrating Radar 
		at AECL's Underground Research Laboratory, Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada
		Serzu,M.H.,Street, P.J.,Lodha, G.S.,Stevens, K.M.,
10:00-10:20	Application of Borehole Radar to Characterize Fracture Developing Rock Mass
		Chiba, A.,Kubota, R.,Tanaka, K.,Nagata, K.,
10:20-10:40	Use of Borehole-Radar Methods to Detect a Saline Tracer in Fractured Crystalline Bedrock 
		at Mirror Lake, Granfton County, New Hampshire, USA
		Lane, J.W.,Haeni, F.P.,Placzek, G.,Wright, D.L.,

(Room-1)	(Engineering Application/ Unexploded Ordnance)
11:00-11:20	Application of GPR to Geotechnical Investigations in Hong Kong
		Chan, L.S.,Law, H.Y.,Yeung, C.K.
11:20-11:40	Application of Ground Penetrating Radar to Soft Soil in Shanghai
		Zhang, Z.,Wang, F.
11:40-12:00	New Application of GPR in Some China Key Engineering Projects
		Wang, H.,Zhang, P.
12:00-12:20	Combined Investigation of GPR and High Precision Real-Time Differential GPS
		Czarnowski, J.,Geissler, S.,Kathage, A.F.
12:20-12:40	Ground Penetrating Radar and Induction Coil Sensor Imaging for Antipersonnel Mines Detection
		Bruschini, C.,Gros, B.,Guerne, F.,Piece, P.Y.,Carmona, O.
		

(Room-2)	(Inverse Problem-1)	
9:00-9:20	Imaging of the Penetrable Object Buried in a Lossy Half Space by Using the Iterative Inversion Algorithm
		Lyu, J.W.,Yang, S.Y.,Ra, J.W.
9:20-9:40	Three-Dimensional Inverse Scattering of Buried Dielectric Objects in Cross-Well Geometry
		Hiraoka, T.,Tanaka, M.,Boerner, W. M.
9:40-10:00	Resolution in Radar Tomography for Wall or Pillar Inspection
		Valle, S.,Zanzi, L.
10:00-10:20	Joint Approach of EM Inversion and Multi-Layer Detection/Tracking for Pavement Profiling
		Spagnolini, U.
10:20-10:40	An Image Reconstruction Method Using GPR Data
		Wu, Z.,Liu, C.

(Room-2)	(Inverse Problem-2)
11:00-11:20	Application of Diffraction Tomography to Crosshole Radar Technique
		Kim, H.S.,Hyun, B.K.,Suh, J.H.
11:20-11:40	Microwave Tomography Imaging for Geophysical Applications
		Dourthe, C.,Pichot, C.,Derobert, X.,Cote, P.
11:40-12:00	Localization of Tendon Ducts Behind Reinforcement in Concrete Using Radar in Combination
		 with Inverse Scattering
		Maierhofer, Ch.,Wiggenhauser, H.,Brandfass, M.,Pitsch, A.,Langenberg, K.J.
12:00-12:20	Parametric Imaging of Small Subsurface Objects
		Sato, T.,Takemura, K.,Wakayama, T.
12:20-12:40	Theoretical and Experimental Studies on the Imaging of Underground Objects 
		by Reconstructing the Induced Current
		He, Y.,Uno, T.,Nishioka, Y.,Adachi, S.

(Room-1)	(Plenary Session)
13:40-14:30	A Brief History of GPR Fundamentals and Applications
		Young, J.D., Peters, L. Jr.
			
(Room-1)	(Survey Design/NDI-Concrete)
14:40-15:00	Combination of a Covermeter with a GPR-System  
		-  A Tool for Detecting Prestressed Bars in Concrete Structures
		Flohrer, C.,Poepel, M.
15:00-15:20	Model Tests for Inspecting and Estimating Tunnel Lining Using GPR
		Kim, Y. G.,Jang, J. B.,Baik, K. H.,Jeong, H.C.,Park, C.L.
15:20-15:40	Approaches to Increase Resolution of Radar Signal
		Malagodi, S.,Orlando, L.,Piro, S.
15:40-16:00	Optimization of GPR Acquisition and Noise Elimination Parameters
		Versteeg, R.
16:00-16:20	3D Ground Probing Radar
		van Deen, J.K.
		
(Room-2)	(CW Radar)
14:40-15:00	Numerical Calculation of the Fields Scattered by an an Air Tunnel 
		in the Dissipative Ground Medium Excited by a Short Vertical Dipole
		Ha, T.S.,Choi, H.K.,Ra, J.W.
15:00-15:20	Detection and Imaging of Underground Buried Objects Using a Single Frequency CW Radra
		Shibata, K.,Taniguchi, K.,Kawahara, T.,Saito, Y.,Nomura, A.
15:20-15:40	Current Development Status of a Gated Stepped-Frequency GPR
		Stickley, G.F.,Noon, D.A.,Cherniakov, M.,Longstaff, D.
15:40-16:00	A Simple Calibration Technique for the FM-CW Subsurface Radars Using a Quadrature Signal Transform
		Yamada, H.,Kasahara, H.,Mikami, S.,Yamaguchi, Y.

(Poster Session)
16:20 - 17:20
		
------------------- 2 October (Wendesday) -------------------
	
(Room-1)	(Radar Sensitivity)

9:00-9:20	Sensitivity Analysis of Ground-Penetrating Radar Systems
		Kruk, J. v.d.,Fokkema, J.T.,de Hoop, A.T.,van der Berg, P.M.
9:20-9:40	A Frequency Independent Characterisation of GPR Penetration and Resolution Performance
		Noon, D.A.,Stickley, G.F.,Longstaff, D.
9:40-10:00	GPR Wave Attenuation Tomography Using the Frequency Shift Method
		Liu, L.,Quan, Y.
	
(Room-1)	(Plenary Session ) 
10:00-10:40	Introductions: (1) The Tagajo Site, 
				(2) The Development of GPR Surveying in Japanese Archaeology
		Nishimura, Y.
10:40-19:00	(Field Excursion)
		
------------------- 3 October (Thursday) -------------------
	
(Room-1)	(NDI-Road)	
9:00-9:20	Performance Specifications of Ground Penetrating Radar
		Scullion, T.,Lau, C.L.,Saarenketo, T.
9:20-9:40	Semi-Automatic Processing of GPR Data Collected Over Pavement
		Roberts, R.L.,Petroy, D.
9:40-10:00	A Comprehensive Radar Hardware, Interpretation Software and Survey Methodology Paradigm for Bridge
		 Deck Assessment
		Mesher, D.E.,Dawley, C.B.,Pulles, B.C.
10:00-10:20	An Automated Radar System for Non Destructive Testing of Bridges and Highway Pavements
		Pagnoni, T.
10:20-10:40	GPR Inspection of a Mountain Motorway - A Case Study
		Hugenschmidt, J.,Partl, M.N.,de Witte, H.	
		
(Room-1)	(Plenary Session ) 
11:00-11:50	Polarimetry Ultrawideband Interferometric Sensing and Imaging
		Boerner, W.M.,Verdi, J.S.

(Room-2)	(Radar Polarimetry)
9:00-9:20	Wideband Interferometric Sensing and Imaging Polarimetry 
		- An Essential Tool in Ground Penetrating Radar Applications
		Boerner, W.M.,Verdi, J.S.,Sheen, D.R.
9:20-9:40	Polarimetric Detection of Objects by a Deep Sounding FM-CW Radar
		Yamaguchi, Y.,Kasahara, H.,Moriyama, T.,Yamada, H.
9:40-10:00	Measurement and Characterization of Subsurface Fracture by Polarimetric Borehole Radar
		Miwa, T.,Sato, M.,Niitsuma, H.
10:00-10:20	Tomographic Study of Small-Scale Fracture Zones with Borehole Radar 
		in Vertical and Horizontal Polarization Modes
		Gourry, J.C.,Grandjean, G.,Dufrenoy, A.M.,N'Guyen, Y.
10:20-10:40	Circular-and Cross-Polarization of Circular Microstrip Patch Antennas on Cylindrical Structures
		Fares, O.S.,Mitkees, A.A.,El-Mikati, H.A.
			
(Room-1)	(Signal Processing)
12:50-13:10	Subsurface Imaging Techniques Applied at a Ground-Penetrating Radar Test Facility
		Goodman, N.,Leuschen, C.,Plumb, R.,Allen, C.
13:10-13:30	Near Range Resolution and Object Detection in High Interference Environments
		AL-Ghamdi, A.G.,Afifi, M.S.
13:30-13:50	An Interferometric Technique for Synthetic-Aperture Ground-Penetrating Radar
		Leuschen, C.,Goodman, N.,Allen, C.,Plumb,R.
13:50-14:10	Estimation of Reflector Position by a Directional Borehole Radar 
		Using a Cylindrical Conformal Array Antenna
		Ebihara, S.,Sato, M.,Niitsuma, H.
14:10-14:30	Optimum Correlation Processing of GPR Data for Point Scatterers
		Detlefsen, J.,Felbach, D.
		
14:30-14:40	Closing	
		
------------------- Poster papers -------------------
		
(Applications)	
Mapping Shallow Underground Features That Influence Crop Production and Contaminant Transport
	Freeland, R.S.,Yoder, R.E.,Ammons, J.T.	
Underground Radar Studies for Solving Geological and Safeguarding Problems in Nuclear Waste Repositories
	Eisenburger, D.,Gundelach, V.,Sender, F.,Thierbach, R.	
Borehole Radar for Environmental Applications: Selected Case Studies
	Redman, J.D.,Gilson, E.,Kunert, M.,Pilon, J.,Annan, P.	
Ground Penetrating Radar of Eskers, Kame Terraces, and Moraines: Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
	Jol, H.M.,Young, R.,Fisher, T.G.,Smith, D.G.,Meyers, R.A.	
Detection of Cavities in Dolomite and Profiling of Alluvial Deposits Using GPR in Lithuania
	Zolotarev V.P.,Grigorieff, K.N.,Glotov, V.P.,Stanzyte, B.	
Radar for Mars Soil Sounding and Testing Results
	Barbin, Y.,Kofman, W.,Herique, A.,Laplace, H.,Zolotarev, V.	
Detecting Karstic Cavities with Ground Penetrating Radar at Different Geological Environments in Spain
	Casas, A.,Lazaro, R.,Vilas, M.,Busquet, E.
A Pitfall in GPR-Data Interpretation Caused by Personal Attitude
	Fruhwirth, R.K.,Schmoeller, R.,Holub, B.
Case Studies on the Application of Ground Penetrating Radar Technology in Detection of Underground Utilities and Structure
 Safety Diagnosis
	Bae, S.H.,Kim, H.S.,Yoon, W.S.
Electrical Parameters of Sandy and Clayey Soils in the Range of Wavelengths from 0.8 to 226 cm
	Lebedeva, G.N.
Laboratory and GPR Tests to Evaluate Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Texas and Finnish Base Course Aggregates
	Saarenketo, T.,Scullion, T.
Probing Ahead by Cylindrical GPR and Seismic Reflection
	van Deen, J.K.
Polarization Characteristics of Radio Attenuation in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
	Maeno, H.,Uratsuka, S,Okamoto, K.,Watanabe, O.
Application for a Newly Developed Helicopter-Borne GPR Measuring Systems for Determination of Ice Thickness in Antarctica
	Damm, V.,Eisenburger, D.,Jenett, M.,Thierbach, R.,Winkelmann, J.
Electrical Resistivity Prospecting of Archaeological Tomb - The Iwatoyama Case Study -
	Tanaka, T.,Kishikawa, H.,Mizunaga, H.,Ushijima, K.
Application of GPR in Archaeology Using Boreholes
	Lu, Y.,Sato, M.,Niitsuma, H.

(System)
Development of High Resolution GPR Hardware in the Frequency Range 300MHz - 3.5 GHz
	Murray, W., Lewis, C.,Yang, Z.,Pollock, J.T.A.
A Pipe Detection Radar with Automatic Three Dimensional Mapping
	Chignell, R.J.,Dabis, H.S.
Enhanced Power Ground Penetrating Radars
	Kopeikin, V.V.,Garbatsevich, V.A.,Edemsky, D.E.,Popov, A.V.,Reznikov, A.E.
Videopulse Radar for Subsurface Penetration: Signal Processing, Experiment
	Immoreev, I.,Vovshin, B.,Grinev, A.,Zaikin, A.
The Study of Transmit-Receive Technique of Carrier-Free Pulse Ground Penetrating Radar
	Xiando, W.,Xiyuan, Z. ,Yu, Z.
Analysis of the FM-CW Radar in Layered Lossy Media
	Deng, R.,Liu, C.
The Method of Subsurface Sounding by GPR with Narrow Beam Antenna
	Den, O.E..,Volkomirskaya, L.B.
Chinese RIM Systems and Their Applications
	Wu, Y.,Zhang, Z.,Qu, X.
An Electromagnetic Spatial/Spectreal Sensor for Geological Measurements
	Chufo, R.L.
	
(Numerical Analysis)
Examining the Characteristics of Pulse Ground Penetrating Radar in Sounding and Profiling Modes
	Krampuls, A.Y.,Chubinsky, N.P.
Fresnel Equations for Reflection and Transmission at Boundaries between Two Conductive Media, 
with Applications to Georadar Problems
	Lehmann, F.
Ultra-Wideband Signals Structural Analysis
 	Astanin, L.Y.,Chernyshov, E.E.,Krotov, N.A.,Norkin, V.I.
Numerical Simulation of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) by Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method
	Fang, G.,Zhang, Z.,Wang, W.,Zeng, Y.,Xu, Y.
	
(Signal Processing)
Wideband Interferometric Sensing and Imaging Polarimetry
 - Demonstration of Its Significance in Ground Penetrating Radar Applications
	Boerner, W.M.,Sheen, D.R.,Verdi, J.S.
Source Signature Deconvolution of Ground Penetrating Radar Data
	Neves, F.A.,Miller, J.A.,Roulston, M.S.
Radar Imaging of Underground Objects in Inhomogeneous Soil Using X-T-V Data Matrix
	Hayakawa, H.,Niigawa, T.,Kawanaka, A.
Signal Processing Optimisation for Ultra-Wideband GPR
	Cherniakov, M.,Donskoi, L.,Stickley, G.
Frequency Radar: Optimization of Frequency to Time Translation
	Herique,A.
The Use of FK Techniques in GPR Processing
	Haizhong, Y.,Xiaojian, Y.,Yuansheng, S.
Characteristics of Reflected Wave Obtained by Pulse Type Subsurface Radar
	Taketomi, K.,Miyazaki, K.
	
(Geophysics)
Analysis of EM Radiation Resulted from Earthquake
	Tian, X.,Hata, M.




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