The idea of developing the GEORADAR-EXPERT
software system arose as a result of generalization of many years of
professional experience in the field of georadar research. Practical skills
acquired at all stages of GPR work, such as communication with the customer of
GPR surveys, development of field survey techniques, GPR data processing and
the formation of a technical report, allowed the developers of GEORADAR-EXPERT
to form an understanding of what state-of-the-art software for GPR processing
data should be and in what form the final result of this processing should be
presented.
As a result, three main directions of
development of software for processing GPR data were identified:
The GEORADAR-EXPERT software system was developed taking into account all these factors. The software system includes both widely used GPR data processing options implemented in each GPR software, and algorithms and methods developed specifically for the GEORADAR-EXPERT that increase the depth and informativeness of GPR investigations. The main such development is automated BSEF (Back-Scattering Electromagnetic Field) analysis. The final result of processing GPR data by automated BSEF analysis is sections of attributes, which are the electrophysical characteristics of the subsurface environment and the wave field reflected from this subsurface, as well as the values calculated on the basis of these characteristics.