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Application of Borehole Radar to Tunnel Detection  

Cho, Seong-Jun (Engineering Geophysics Group, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Kim, Jung-Ho (Engineering Geophysics Group, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Kim, Chang-Ryol (Engineering Geophysics Group, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Son, Jeong-Sul (Engineering Geophysics Group, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Sung, Nak-Hun (Engineering Geophysics Group, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.9, no.4, 2006 , pp. 279-290 More about this Journal
Abstract
The borehole radar methods used to tunnel detection are mainly classified into borehole radar reflection, directional antenna, crosshole scanning, and radar tomography methods. In this study, we have investigated the feasibility and limitation of each method to tunnel detection through case studies. In the borehole radar reflection data, there were much more clear diffraction signals of the upper wings than lower wings of the hyperbolas reflected from the tunnel, and their upper and lower wings were spreaded out to more than 10m higher and lower traces from the peaks of the hyperbolas. As the ratio of borehole diameter to antenna length increases, the ringing gets stronger on the data due to the increase in the impedance mismatching between antennas and water in the boreholes. It is also found that the reflection signals from the tunnel could be enhanced using the optimal offset distance between transmitter and receiver antennas. Nevertheless, the borehole radar reflection data could not provide directional information of the reflectors in the subsurface. Direction finding antenna system had a advantage to take a three dimensional location of a tunnel with only one borehole survey even though the cost is still very high and it required very high expertise. The data from crosshole scanning could be a good indicator for tunnel detection and it could give more reliable result when the borehole radar reflection survey is carried out together. The images of the subsurface also can be reconstructed using travel time tomography which could provide the physical property of the medium and would be effective for imaging the underground structure such as tunnels. Based on the results described above, we suggest a cost-effective field procedure for detection of a tunnel using borehole radar techniques; borehole radar reflection survey using dipole antenna can firstly be applied to pick up anomalous regions within the borehole, and crosshole scanning or reflection survey using directional antenna can then be applied only to the anomalous regions to detect the tunnel.
Keywords
tunnel detection; borehole radar reflection; radar tomography; crosshole scanning; directional antenna;
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