Time delay and interface roughness estimation of pavements using modified MUSIC: experimental results
Résumé
In civil engineering, roadway structure evaluation is
an important application which can be carried out by ground
penetrating radar. This paper focuses on the estimation of the
time delay (and so, thickness) and interface roughness of civil
engineering structure, like pavements. The influence of interface
roughness is taken into account in the signal model. Thus, in
this paper, we propose a new method which allows to efficiently
estimate the time delay and interface roughness. Contrary to [1]
which proposes two methods (one to estimate time delay and
another to estimate roughness), in this paper, only one method,
modified MUSIC, is used to estimate the two parameters (time
delay and interface roughness). The proposed method is tested
on experimental data. The experimental results show the good
performance of the proposed algorithm.