PURPOSES: The purpose of this study is to evaluate different types of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) testing for characterizing the road cavity detection. The impulse and step-frequency-type GPR tests were conducted on a full-scale testbed with an artificial void installation. After analyzing the response signals of GPR tests for detecting the road cavity, the characteristics of each GPR response was evaluated for a suitable selection of GPR tests. METHODS: Two different types of GPR tests were performed to estimate the limitation and accuracy for detecting the cavities underneath the asphalt pavement. The GPR signal responses were obtained from the testbed with different cavity sizes and depths. The detection limitation was identified by a signal penetration depth at a given cavity for impulse and step-frequency-type GPR testing. The unique signal characteristics was also observed at cavity sections. RESULTS: The impulse-type GPR detected the 500-mm length of cavity at a depth of 1.0 m, and the step-frequency-type GPR detected the cavity up to 1.5 m. This indicates that the detection capacity of the step-frequency type is better than the impulse type. The step-frequency GPR testing also can reflect the howling phenomena that can more accurately determine the cavity. CONCLUSIONS : It is found from this study that the step-frequency GPR testing is more suitable for the road cavity detection of asphalt pavement. The use of step-frequency GPR testing shows a distinct image at the cavity occurrences.

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a typical sensor system for underground objects detection area. The multichannel GPR devices can give more detail and informative three-dimensional (3D) data for classification underground objects. Spatial information of underground objects can be well characterized in the three-dimensional GPR block data which consists of several B-scan and C-scan data. In this article underground object classification method is proposed by using 3D GRP data. Deep learning technique is recently being adopted into this field due to its powerful image classification capacity. The 3D GRP block data is then used to train deep three-dimensional convolution neural network (3D CNN). The proposed method successfully classifies cavity, pipe, manhole and subsoils having small false positive errors. The suggested method is experimentally validated by area data collected on urban roads in Seoul, South Korea.

recently, information about buried objects has been needed for redevelopment and reorganization of the complicated urban environment. Accidents caused by pipeline damages, such as gas lines, communication lines and underground electric power lines, are results of loss of people and property. Therefore, information on underground obscured material is essential for safety and construction progress. GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) investigation has advantages of high resolution, ease of utilization and strong electromagnetic noise when using high frequency. However, the GPR detection data image is not visible and has a problem that it is interpreted differently according to the skill of the inspector. Therefore, this study was conducted to verify the visualization of detection data using computer vision based on GPR detection data. Canny edge and Harris corner detection were applied to the GPR image data to detect the hyperbolic shape. By using this to increase the visibility, it will contribute to the reliable result in the buried detection.

To get the empirical data of GPR detection and to develop the image prosessing program of GPR detection data, GPR detection were proceed by the underground pipes and cavities buried in the Chamber. In the case of non pavement and asphalt pavement, water filled cavity that was buried in 0.7m depth was able to detection. But in the case of 1.0 m and 1.3 m buring depth, water filled cavity was not able to detection. In the case of non-reinforced and reinforced concrete pavement, it was difficult to detect the cavity caused by signal interference. GPRiPP programs was developed for image processing of the GPR detection data. The major processing algorithm were background removal, stacking and gain function. With proper image processing of gain function and background removal in GPRiPP program, it was showed that similar results can be obtained with conventional image processing program.

본 연구에서는 토조에 설치한 관의 종류 및 매립 깊이, 공동 깊이 및 포장 조건 등에 대한 GPR(Ground Penetrating Radar) 탐사를 진 행하여 매립관의 종류 및 공동 탐사 능력을 실험적으로 규명하였다. 아스팔트 포장 및 비포장의 경우, 콘크리트 포장 및 철근 콘크리트 포장 대 비 매립관의 탐사가 용이한 것으로 평가되었다. 또한 공기 공동의 경우, 매립 깊이 1 m에서는 탐지가 가능한 것으로 평가되었다.