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Ground-Penetrating Radar: Technologies and Data Processing Issues for Applications in the Field of Cultural Heritage

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Sensing the Past

Part of the book series: Geotechnologies and the Environment ((GEOTECH,volume 16))

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In this contribution, the possibilities offered by the some of the most advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) instruments are shown, with particular reference to the Yakumo GPR system. To make more clear the exposition and the advantages offered by this new technology, some theoretical aspects about GPR prospecting are also briefly recalled. In particular, sampling and resolution aspects are mentioned, as well as aspects relative to the measure of the propagation velocity of the waves in the soil.

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    Indeed, not all the media can be described in a so simple fashion, but we can accept this model for many soils of interest.

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  1. Institute for Archaeological and Monumental Heritage IBAM-CNR, Via Monteroni 199/A, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    Raffaele Persico

  2. Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, 41 Kawauchi, Sendai, 980-8576, Japan

    Motoyuki Sato

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  1. CNR-IBAM Institute of Archaeological and Monumental Heritage, Tito Scalo, Potenza, Italy

    Nicola Masini

  2. Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (CNR-IREA), Napoli, Italy

    Francesco Soldovieri

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Persico, R., Sato, M. (2017). Ground-Penetrating Radar: Technologies and Data Processing Issues for Applications in the Field of Cultural Heritage. In: Masini, N., Soldovieri, F. (eds) Sensing the Past. Geotechnologies and the Environment, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50518-3_9

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