Patent ID: 9291710
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G01S,G01V

Claim Text:
1. A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for detecting one or more subsurface targets comprising: a code segment for receiving a reflectivity data from two or more subsurface reflectors using a ground penetrating radar, wherein the two or more subsurface reflectors comprise the one or more subsurface targets and a medium surrounding the one or more subsurface targets; a code segment for calculating an impedance data for the two or more subsurface reflectors by inverting the reflectivity data using a temporal transmission line model with a “layer-peeling” method; a code segment for calculating one or more constitutive parameters of the two or more subsurface reflectors based on the impedance data; and a code segment for detecting the one or more subsurface targets based on a change in the one or more constitutive parameters.