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- Title
GPR Clutter Reflection Noise-Filtering through Singular Value Decomposition in the Bidimensional Spectral Domain.
- Authors
Oliveira, Rui Jorge; Caldeira, Bento; Teixidó, Teresa; Borges, José Fernando; López, Yuri Álvarez; Fernández, María García
- Abstract
Usually, in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) datasets, the user defines the limits between the useful signal and the noise through standard filtering to isolate the effective signal as much as possible. However, there are true reflections that mask the coherent reflectors that can be considered noise. In archaeological sites these clutter reflections are caused by scattering with origin in subsurface elements (e.g., isolated masonry, ceramic objects, and archaeological collapses). Its elimination is difficult because the wavelet parameters similar to coherent reflections and there is a risk of creating artefacts. In this study, a procedure to filter the clutter reflection noise (CRN) from GPR datasets is presented. The CRN filter is a singular value decomposition-based method (SVD), applied in the 2D spectral domain. This CRN filtering was tested in a dataset obtained from a controlled laboratory environment, to establish a mathematical control of this algorithm. Additionally, it has been applied in a 3D-GPR dataset acquired in the Roman villa of Horta da Torre (Fronteira, Portugal), which is an uncontrolled environment. The results show an increase in the quality of archaeological GPR planimetry that was verified via archaeological excavation.
- Subjects
SINGULAR value decomposition; CLUTTER (Noise); GROUND penetrating radar; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; DIGITAL signal processing
- Publication
Remote Sensing, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 10, p2005
- ISSN
2072-4292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rs13102005