International Journal of applied mathematics and computer science

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Number 4 - December 2015
Volume 25 - 2015

Neural networks as a tool for georadar data processing

Piotr Szymczyk, Sylwia Tomecka-Suchoń, Magdalena Szymczyk

Abstract
In this article a new neural network based method for automatic classification of ground penetrating radar (GPR) traces is proposed. The presented approach is based on a new representation of GPR signals by polynomials approximation. The coefficients of the polynomial (the feature vector) are neural network inputs for automatic classification of a special kind of geologic structure—a sinkhole. The analysis and results show that the classifier can effectively distinguish sinkholes from other geologic structures.

Keywords
neural networks, artificial neural networks, ground penetrating radar, classification of a geological structure, sinkhole

DOI
10.1515/amcs-2015-0068