Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR): Theory, Methods and Applications: Second Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2025 | Viewed by 20
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Interests: ground-penetrating radar theory and methods; geophysical data processing; forward simulation and inversion imaging
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Interests: electromagnetic waves simulation; full waveform inversion; ground-penetrating radar data processing
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Interests: inverse problems; optimization methods in computational electromagnetics; non-destructive evaluation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a high-precision detection technology, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) can provide non-destructive high-resolution information in near-surface geophysics. From traditional civil engineering to glaciology, planetary exploration, and so on, GPR has been used in many applications. The diversity of sensing objects necessitates increased precision and efficiency in GPR data processing methods.
This Special Issue aims to report the latest methods of simulation, inversion, and data processing or the most recent applications of GPR in various fields. This provides a way to improve the precision and efficiency of traditional GPR methods and promotes the development of GPR applications.
In particular, we invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to publish papers on the novel or innovative aspects of advanced algorithms and GPR applications. Some examples are listed below, but the topics are not restricted to these.
- Novel developments in GPR systems and antennas.
- New techniques for the numerical simulation of GPRs with different physical quantities, scale domains, and resolutions.
- Advances in data processing methodologies, automatic target recognition, imaging algorithm, and inversion in GPR.
- Civil engineering application, including road detection, tunneling, structural stability estimation, etc.
- Innovative cases of GPRs in complex scenarios, including geotechnical engineering, glaciology, planetary exploration, etc.
- Artificial intelligence in GPR technology.
- Infrastructure inspection (non-destructive testing (NDT)).
- Geological and environmental engineering.
Prof. Dr. Deshan Feng
Dr. Xun Wang
Dr. Bin Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ground-penetrating radar
- ground-penetrating radar theory
- numerical simulation
- data processing and interpretation
- inversion and imaging
- ground-penetrating radar application
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