Study of High Robust Three Dimensional Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Modeling of Ground Penetrating Radar for a Heterogeneous Environment
Abstract
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a non-invasive tool commonly used to characterize the physical properties of the subsurface. The translation of the physical measurements of geologic and hydrogeologic conditions is the culmination of many geophysical investigations. When numerical modeling is applied parallel to GPR data, it allows understanding of the effects of complex electromagnetic phenomena by defining and solving problems, as well as predicting the performance of radar in a complex heterogeneous environment. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) has been widely used for numerical modeling of GPR, but most of the previous algorithms are limited in their ability to model the electrical conductivity and permittivity. In this research, a highly efficient robust algorithm was developed to enhance the effectiveness of the FDTD forward modeling in surroundings characterized by an arbitrary distribution of all electrical properties in three dimensional space. In the first part of this research, two different FDTD codes which include different absorbing boundary conditions, Enquist and Majda absorbing boundary condition (ABC) and perfectly matched layer (PML), were used and compared. In the second part, the modeling algorithm was developed for a heterogeneous half-space medium to facilitate statistical modeling of complex distributions of electrical properties in the subsurface. The results produced by the simulation compared with real GPR results reveal high accuracy using the robust algorithm to optimize three dimensional FDTD forward modeling of GPR responses in heterogeneous surroundings.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006AGUFM.H43G..08E
- Keywords:
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- 0545 Modeling (4255);
- 0644 Numerical methods;
- 1706 Computational geophysics