compression methods and on 1975 he founded the Ultrasonic and NDT .... di
servizi e delle mine antiuomo, Tesi di Dottorato in Controlli non Distruttivi XVI.
GEORADAR research group at Laboratorio Ultrasuoni e Controlli Non Distruttivi
Dipartimento Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni Universita’ degli Studi di Firenze
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Brief history of activities Group members Collaborations and Projects, Georadar Applications Publications, Conferences, Thesis works Contacts
Brief history of activities •
On 1974 Prof Leonardo Masotti worked on radar and ultrasonic pulse compression methods and on 1975 he founded the Ultrasonic and NDT Laboratory where medical and NDT applications of ultrasound have been carried out. (http://www.echommunity.com/EchommunityPortal/uscnd/index.htm).
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The activity on ground penetrating radar (GPR) started in 1992 as knowledge transfer from ultrasonic non destructive testing (NDT) techniques, within the NDT doctorate course, coordinated by Prof. Leonardo Masotti.
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Defect detection in engineering materials (metals, ceramics, etc.) has tackled by ultrasonic tomographic and time-of-flight inspection methods.
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Physical principles underlying underground inspections with radar and ultrasonic/acoustic methods are similar and they have been investigated for landmine detection.
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On 2006 starts a collaboration with Centro di GeoTecnologie of the University of Siena for organizing courses on georadar for geophysicists.
GEORADAR group members •
Prof Leonardo Masotti (Full professor since 1972, IEEE Member, Coordinator of the doctorate in NDT and of the Ultrasonic and Non Destructive Testing Laboratory)
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Prof Lorenzo Capineri (MS Electronic Eng, PhD NDT, IEEE Senior Member, Fellow Electromagnetics Academy)
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Prof Colin Windsor (FRS, DPhil, FInstP, FInstNDT) http://freespace.virgin.net/colin.windsor
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Dr Pierluigi Falorni (MS Informatics Eng, PhD NDT)
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Dr Andrea Bulletti (MS Eelctronic Eng, research contract)
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Dr Samuela Valentini (MS Electronic Eng, PhD student in NDT)
and with the collaboration of mathematical-physics group: •
Prof Giovanni Borgioli
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Dr Serena Matucci
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Prof Benedetta Morini
Collaborations •
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority UKAEA (1990-1996), Harwell Laboratory, Oxford, UK
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Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (1992-2005)
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Ingegneria dei Sistemi, IDS, Pisa, Italy (1998-2008)
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Appalti Bonifiche Costruzioni (ABC), Firenze, Italy (1999, 2008)
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Remote Sensing Lab, Bauman University Moscow, Russia (2003-2008)
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Enviroscan, Lancaster, USA (2004-2008)
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Walnut, Tokio, Japan (2004-2006)
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ERA Technology Limited (ERA Ltd) , Surrey UK (2004)
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NATO, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Dipartimento di Costruzioni, Università di Firenze (2006-2008), Italy
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Museo Civico di Rovereto, Rovereto (Trento), Italy
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Centro di GeoTecnologie, Università di Siena, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
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Microwave Remote Sensing Centre, Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara” CNR , Firenze, Italy
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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Projects Georadar method •
Euroconference Mine’1999, Mine Identification Novelties Euroconference, Florence, Italy
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EUDEM2, European Union Humanitarian Demining , 2004-2005, http://www.eudem.vub.ac.be
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Holographic Subsurface Radar Intended for Soil and Construction Designs Sounding. International Science & Technology Center (ISTC), 2004 http://www.istc.ru/
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“Metodi per la rilevazione automatica di oggetti sepolti tramite radar penetranti il suolo” , IDS, Pisa, Italy, 2005
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“Ottimizzazione di metodi per la rilevazione automatica di oggetti sepolti mediante radar penetranti il suolo“, IDS, Pisa, Italy, 2008
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NATO Project CBP.NR.NRCLG.982520 “Holographic Subsurface Radar Intended for Searching of Mines in the Soil” (2007-2008)
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Committee CEN/WS7 , WG2 “CWA 14747-2 on "soil characterisation for metal detector and ground penetrating radar performance"
Acoustic method •
EUDEM2 Technology Survey: (Non-Linear) Acoustic Landmine Detection Study
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Regione Toscana ICT ONE (2008-2009): Studio e realizzazione di un sistema di eccitazione acustica del suolo e di un sistema di rivelazione ottico delle vibrazioni indotte al suolo da oggetti sepolti
GEORADAR APPLICATIONS • • • • • •
Buried utilities/services: pipes, cables, tunnels Humanitarian demining: buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) Road/Railway/Building/Landing tracks health monitoring Dangerous waste disposal detection Archeology - Cultural Heritage Geology
Course on Georadar Applications See web site of the course: http://www.geotecnologie.unisi.it/service/programmi.php?act=see&id=140 Course material is available in PDF format from CGTlearning: • GEORADAR_CGT_LEZIONI07-08_CASES&PITFALL.PDF • HUMANITARIAN_DEMINING.PDF • NMO.PDF • REBARS_BRIDGE.PDF • S.BIAGIO.PDF • GEORADAR_CGT_LEZIONI07-08.PDF • GEORADAR_CGT_LEZ.1-2.PDF • SLIDES_ESERCITAZIONE.PDF
Thesis works SVILUPPO DI METODI DI ANALISI DI IMMAGINI OTTENUTE CON RADAR PENETRANTI NEL SOTTOSUOLO. Borsa post-dottorato, Ing Lorenzo Capineri, 1992-1994 TECNICHE DI ISPEZIONE DEL SOTTOSUOLO MEDIANTE RADAR IMPULSIVO: SVILUPPO DI METODI DI INTERPRETAZIONE DELLE IMMAGINI. Autore: GRANDE PAOLA Facoltà: Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 1996 ALGORITMI DI ELABORAZIONE AUTOMATICA PER IMMAGINI DA RADAR PENETRANTI NEL SOTTOSUOLO". Autore: PARMENTOLA CARMEN CATERINA Facoltà: Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 1997 ALGORITMI DI ELABORAZIONE AUTOMATICA DI DATI TRIDIMENSIONALI DA RADAR PENETRANTI NEL SOTTOSUOLO: APPLICAZIONE AL RILEVAMENTO DI MINE ANTIUOMO. Autore: di ZINNO FRANCESCO Facoltà: Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 1999 SVILUPPO DI ALGORITMI PER L'ESTRAZIONE DI CARATTERISTICHE MORFOLOGICHE DI OGGETTI SEPOLTI DA SCANSIONI GEORADAR. Autore: FALORNI PIERLUIGI Facoltà: Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 2000 SVILUPPO DI ALGORITMI PER L'ANALISI DI DATI OTTENUTI DA SCANSIONI DEL SUOLO CON RADAR PENETRANTI MONTATI SU MEZZI MOBILI. Autore: DAVOLI GIUSEPPE Facoltà: Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 2000 METODI AVANZATI DI ELABORAZIONE DI DATI GEORADAR PER L’INDIVIDUAZIONE DI OGGETTI SEPOLTI Applicazione al caso della ricerca di servizi e delle mine antiuomo, Tesi di Dottorato in Controlli non Distruttivi XVI ciclo, Ing Pierluigi Falorni, Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 2005 ANALISI E SVILUPPO DI ALGORITMI PER LA STIMA DELLA POSIZIONE E DIMENSIONE DI OGGETTI SEPOLTI DI FORMA CILINDRICA MEDIANTE SCANSIONE RADAR. Autore: FABRIZIO MARNICA Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 2005 ANALISI TEORICA E SPERIMENTALE DI UN MODELLO CIRCUITALE EQUIVALENTE PER L’INDAGINE ACUSTICA Di MINE ANTIUOMO SEPOLTE. Autore: SAMUELA VALENTINI Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 2007 METODO ACUSTICO DI RIVELAZIONE DI MINE CON CONTENITORE CEDEVOLE: STUDIO, SVILUPPO, SPERIMENTAZIONE. Autore: FABIO CIORIA, Facolta' di ingegneria Anno di laurea: 2008
Publications [P1] L. CAPINERI, P. GRANDE, J.A.G. TEMPLE An advanced image processing technique for real-time interpretation of ground penetrating radar images. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Ed. John Wiley&Sons, Vol. 9/1 , 1998, pp.51-59 [P2] C.G. WINDSOR, L. CAPINERI Automated object Positioning from Ground Penetrating Radar Images, INSIGHT, Journal of the British Institute of Non Destructive Testing, Vol. 40, N.7, July 1998, pp.482-488 [P3]L. CAPINERI, C.G. WINDSOR, F. di ZINNO, Three-dimensional Buried Mine Positions from Arbitrary RADAR Surface Scans, Insight Vol.41, N.6, June 1999, pp 372-375 [P4] L. CAPINERI, G. DAVOLI, P. FALORNI, L. MASOTTI and C. WINDSOR , Advanced Image Processing for 3-D Radar scans for mine detection. Rivista Alta Frequenza, Vol. 12 N. 2, MarzoAprile 2001, pp. 74-79. [P5] C. WINDSOR, L. CAPINERI and P. FALORNI, “The Classification of buried pipes from radar scans ”, INSIGHT, Journal of the British Institute of Non Destructive Testing, Vol. 45, N.12, December 2003, pp. 817-821 [P6] A. BULLETTI and L. CAPINERI, Chapter 4 , “(Non) Linear Acoustic detection” , in report EUDEM2 Technology Survey Catalogue of advanced technologies and systems for humanitarian demining Editors: S. Crabbe , C. Bruschini, H.Sahli, Draft Version 0.11, 26 November 2004, http://www.eudem.vub.ac.be/ [P7] C. WINDSOR, L. CAPINERI , P. FALORNI, S. MATUCCI, and G. BORGIOLI, “The estimation of buried pipe diameters using ground penetrating radar”, INSIGHT, Vol 47, N°7 , July 2005, pp 394-399
Publications (continued) [P8] A. BULLETTI and L. CAPINERI, Chapter 4 , “(Non) Linear Acoustic detection” , in report EUDEM2 Technology Survey Catalogue of advanced technologies and systems for humanitarian demining Editors: S. Crabbe , C. Bruschini, H.Sahli, Draft Version 0.11, 26 November 2004, http://www.eudem.vub.ac.be/ [P9] F. BELLAN, A. BULLETTI, L. CAPINERI, EUDEM2 Technology Survey, "(Non-Linear) Acoustic Landmine Detection Study", Ultrasound and Non Destructive Testing Laboratory, Dept. of Electronic and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Italy October 2004 - Rev. 1.2 by L. Capineri, http://www.eudem.vub.ac.be/ [P10] A. BULLETTI, L. CAPINERI, M. MASCHERINI, C.G. WINDSOR, EUDEM2 Technology Survey, "(Non-Linear) Acoustic Landmine Detection Study, Acoustic Landmine Detection Prototype Development", 25 July 2005 - Rev. 2.0, http://www.eudem.vub.ac.be/ [P11] G. BORGIOLI, L. CAPINERI, P. FALORNI, S. MATUCCI, C.G. WINDSOR, “The detection of buried pipes from time-of-flight radar data”, IEEE TGRS, Vol. 46, N.8, August 2008, pp ( in print ) [P12] L. CAPINERI, D.J. DANIELS, P. FALORNI,O.L. LOPERA and C.G. WINDSOR, “Estimation of the relative permittivity of shallow soils by using the ground penetrating radar response from different buried targets.” Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (JEMWA)- PIER Letters 2, page 63-71, 2008
Conferences [C1] L. CAPINERI, P. GRANDE, L. MASOTTI, J.A.G. TEMPLE, C.G. WINDSOR Advanced image processing techniques for automatic interpretation of time-of-flight diffraction images, in Acoustical Imaging,Vol. 23, Edited by S. Lees, and Leonard A. Ferrari, Publ. Plenum Press, New York, 1997, pp.412-416 [C2] C.G. WINDSOR, L. CAPINERI and L. MASOTTI, “Turning surface radar scans into three-dimensional buried mine positions “, invited lecture presented at Euroconference MINE’99, Firenze 1-3 October 1999, pp 60-65. [C3] C.G. WINDSOR, L. CAPINERI, “Combining results from different mine detection techniques”, invited lecture presented at Euroconference MINE’99, Firenze 1-3 October 1999, pp 91-96. [C4] L. CAPINERI, P. FALORNI, L. MASOTTI and C. WINDSOR , “ Advanced processing for three-dimensional radar data for mine detection ”, Invited at PIERS 2000, Boston, USA [C5] L. CAPINERI, P. FALORNI, L. MASOTTI and C. WINDSOR , “ Buried mine classification from three-dimensional radar data”, Invited paper in Proceedings of Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, July 1-5 2002, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 428 [C6] C. WINDSOR, L. CAPINERI AND P. FALORNI,” Classification of buried objects from series of aligned hyperbolic arcs or “pendants” in Radar Scans: The measurement of buried pipe diameter.” PIERS 2004, Pisa, invited [C7] P. FALORNI, L. CAPINERI, L. MASOTTI AND G. PINELLI,” Reliable detection of hyperbolic diffraction patterns in Radar scans for computerized topographic mapping of buried utilities” PIERS 2004,Pisa, invited [C8] P. FALORNI, L. CAPINERI, L. MASOTTI, G. PINELLI, “3-D Radar imaging of buried utilities by features estimation of hyperbolic diffraction patterns in radar scans”, Tenth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, 21-24 June, 2004, Delft, The Netherlands [C9] L. CAPINERI, P. FALORNI, L. MASOTTI, C.G. WINDSOR “Pictorial visualization of antipersonnel mines using ground penetrating radar”, Proceedings of abstracts presented at Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2005, Hangzhou, China, August 22-26, pp 337 [C10] C.G. WINDSOR, L. CAPINERI, P. FALORNI, “The estimation of buried pipe diameters by generalised Hough transform”, Proceedings of extended papers presented at Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2005, Hangzhou, China, August 22-26, pp 345-348 [C11] P. FALORNI, L. CAPINERI, L. MASOTTI, G. ALLI, G. PINELLI, “Automatic detection of buried pipes from ground penetrating radar data”, Proceedings of abstracts presented at Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2005, Hangzhou, China, August 22-26, pp 378 [C12] P. FALORNI, LORENZO CAPINERI, L. MASOTTI, COLIN G. WINDSOR “Detection of Buried Objects in Periodic Structures with Ground Penetrating Radar Mounted on Moving Vehicles”, Proceedings of abstracts presented at Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2005, Cambridge (MA) , USA, 26-29 March 2006 [C13] G. BORGIOLI, P. FALORNI, L. CAPINERI, B. MORINI, S. MATUCCI, C.G. WINDSOR, “Estimation of Buried Pipes Diameter and Position by Ground Penetrating Radar Scans”, Proceedings of abstracts presented at Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2005, Cambridge (MA) , USA, 26-29 March 2006
Conferences (continued) [C14] C.G. WINDSOR, G. BORGIOLI, P. FALORNI, L. CAPINERI, B. MORINI, S. MATUCCI, “A data point-labelled generalised Hough transform for extracting reflections from buried objects in ground penetrating radar scans”, abstract presented at Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2007 [C15] P. FALORNI, L. CAPINERI, L. MASOTTI, C.G. WINDSOR, “Analysis of time domain Ultra-Wide-Band radar signals reflected by buried objects ”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2007, Beijing, China PIERS Online, Vol. 3, No. 5, 662-665, 2007 [C16] G. BORGIOLI, A. BULLETTI, M. CALZOLAI, L. CAPINERI, P. FALORNI, L. MASOTTI, S. VALENTINI, C. WINDSOR, “Theoretical and experimental analysis of an equivalent model for the investigation of shallow landmines with acoustic methods ”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 6739, 673907 (Oct. 15, 2007) [C17] L. CAPINERI, S. IVASHOV, T. BECHTEL, A. ZHURAVLEV, P. FALORNI, C. WINDSOR, G. BORGIOLI, I. VASILIEV, AND A. SHEYKO, “Comparison of GPR Sensor Types for Landmine Detection and Discrimination” GPR’08 12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar 15 – 19 June 2008, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, In print. [C18] S. IVASHOV, V. RAZEVIG, I. VASILYEV, A. ZHURAVLEV, T. BECHTEL, L. CAPINERI, “The Holographic Principle in Subsurface Radar Technology” Submitted to International Symposium to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Invention of Holography, Springfield, Massachusetts USA, October 27-29, 2008, [C19] L. CAPINERI, P. FALORNI, G. BORGIOLI, T. BECHTEL, S. IVASHOV, A. ZHURAVLEV, I. VASILIEV, M. PARADISO, G. CARTOCCI, "Application of the Holographic Radar RASCAN to Cultural Heritage Inspection“ Workshop on "Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage management", Rome 30 September - 4 October, 2008. In print [C20] A. BULLETTI, S. VALENTINI, F. CIORIA, G. BORGIOLI, M. CALZOLAI, L. CAPINERI, L. MASOTTI , "Silicon micromachined accelerometers for the detection of compliant anti-personnel landmines“ IEEE Sensors 2008, October, 26-29 2008, Lecce, Italy
Seminars • Microwave Remote Sensing Seminar, Area delle Ricerca del CNR 20 Aprile 2006, ore 11:00 Prof. Lorenzo Capineri, Università di Firenze “Metodi avanzati di rivelazione e classificazione di oggetti sepolti mediante radar penetranti nel suolo” • Centro di GeoTecnologie, Univ. di SienaS.Giovanni Valdarno-19/5/2006, “Attività di ricerca sul metodo georadar”, Prof.Ing Lorenzo Capineri e Ing. Pierluigi Falorni
Contacts Georadar Research Group at Laboratorio Ultrasuoni e Controlli Non Distruttivi Dipartimento Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Università di Firenze, Via Santa Marta 3, 50139 Firenze - Italy Prof Lorenzo Capineri Tel. +39-055-4796376 Cell. +39-3296509155 Fax +39-055-4796517 E-Mail:
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