Fusion Before Imaging Method for Heterogeneous Borehole Radar Subsurface Surveys
- 15 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Vol. 60 (01962892), 1-14
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2021.3054786
Abstract
In this article, an efficient radar fusion-before-imaging (RFBI) method for heterogeneous borehole radar systems is proposed. Different from conventional fusion-after-imaging processes, the sample sets collected from heterogeneous borehole radar systems (monostatic, bistatic, or multiple-input multiple-output) are first merged into one data set before the imaging process in RFBI, and a single imaging operation is demanded to obtain the target space image with high precision. Specifically, the diversity in heterogeneous borehole radar sample sets is taken into consideration, and the radar sample sets are inserted and fused into a high-dimensional sample set before imaging. The target space spectrum is generated according to the echo space-frequency constraint relationship, and the target space is extracted from one imaging process. The influence of clutters in RFBI results is reduced, and the imaging accuracy is satisfactory. Meanwhile, due to the fusion process ahead, the computational time of RFBI hardly increases with the number of radar sample sets. The synthetic and field experiment results show that RFBI demonstrates comparable accuracy as Kirchhoff migration and higher efficiency in processing large amounts of data sets at the cost of large memory requirement, which is suitable for the joint imaging of heterogeneous radar systems.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (U19A2056, 61701088, 61701093)
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (ZYGX2020J002)
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