Reverse time migration of GPR data based on accurate velocity estimation and artifacts removal using total variation de-noising

• Published in: Journal of applied geophysics Vol. 198; p. 104563
• Main Authors: Feng, Deshan, Li, Ting, Li, Guangchang, Wang, Xun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.03.2022
• Subjects: Autofocusing techniques; Ground penetrating radar; Reverse time migration; Total variation de-noising; Velocity estimation; Autofocusing techniques; Ground penetrating radar; Velocity estimation; Total variation de-noising; Reverse time migration

Reverse time migration (RTM) is the important intermediate step for focusing the radar diffracted energy of the targets in ground penetrating radar imaging. The conventional RTM algorithm demands a large number of iterative trial experiments and depends on the experts' decision on the estimatio...