The ISPRS SC Webinar Series
ISPRS WG III/3 (Active Microwave Remote Sensing) Webinar Series
by Dr Motoyuki Sato
This webinar series is organised by the ISPRS WG III/3 (Active Microwave Remote Sensing) with the technical support of the ISPRS Student Consortium (ISPRS SC).
Date: 14 May, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 (GMT+0)
Title: Ground Penetrating Radar- Data acquisition and signal processing
Speaker: Motoyuki Sato, Tohoku University, Japan
Moderator: Prof Junichi Susaki
Abstract:
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a technique of imaging subsurface objects by using electromagnetic wave reflection. The principle is the same as other microwave remote sensing techniques, and the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing is used for image reconstruction. I this Webinar, we will learn fundamental physics related to GPR data acquisition, including radar hardware, and signal processing of GPR signal. As an example of GPR applications, we will show landmine detection and demonstrate how GPR is working in mine affected countries including Cambodia and Ukraine.
Speaker's Bio:
Motoyuki Sato received the B.E., M.E degrees, and Dr. Eng. degree in information engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1980, 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 1997 he has been a professor at Tohoku University until his retirement in 2023, and currently he is Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University. He was a distinguished professor of Tohoku University 2007-2011, the director of Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University 2009-2013. He is CEO of ALISys Co., Ltd, which he established in 2019. His current interests include transient electromagnetics and antennas, radar polarimetry, ground penetrating radar (GPR), borehole radar, electromagnetic induction sensing, GB-SAR and MIMO radar systems.
