GPR monitoring for road transport infrastructure: A systematic review and machine learning insights

M Rasol, JC Pais, V Pérez-Gracia, M Solla… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Suitable road pavements assessment becomes essential to provide safe traffic movements
of people and goods. Moreover, a reliable transportation network is a crucial aspect of …

[HTML][HTML] A review of GPR application on transport infrastructures: Troubleshooting and best practices

M Solla, V Pérez-Gracia, S Fontul - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The non-destructive testing and diagnosis of transport infrastructures is essential because of
the need to protect these facilities for mobility, and for economic and social development …

Automatic pixel-level detection of vertical cracks in asphalt pavement based on GPR investigation and improved mask R-CNN

Z Liu, JKW Yeoh, X Gu, Q Dong, Y Chen, W Wu… - Automation in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-destructive testing and characterization of internal vertical cracks are critical for road
maintenance by ground penetrating radar (GPR). This paper describes a mask region …

Denoising method of ground-penetrating radar signal based on independent component analysis with multifractal spectrum

R Li, H Zhang, Z Chen, N Yu, W Kong, T Li, E Wang… - Measurement, 2022 - Elsevier
Denoising is commonly used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of ground-penetrating
radar (GPR) for target detection and recognition. We propose an adaptive GPR denoising …

GPR-based detection of internal cracks in asphalt pavement: A combination method of DeepAugment data and object detection

Z Liu, X Gu, W Wu, X Zou, Q Dong, L Wang - Measurement, 2022 - Elsevier
The lack of data and poor quality of ground penetrating radar (GPR) images have limited the
development of the object detection for internal cracks in asphalt pavement. To address this …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and monitoring opportunities of skid resistance in road transport: a critical review and road sensors

M Rasol, F Schmidt, S Ientile, L Adelaide, B Nedjar… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Skid resistance is a significant feature that provides consistent traffic safety management for
road pavements. An appropriate level of Skid resistance describes the contribution that the …

Detection and quantitative evaluation of pumping distress on bridge deck pavement through field and laboratory experiments

D Ren, J Shang, J Xu, M Huang, X Chen, C Cao… - … and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Pumping distress refers to the phenomenon of dynamic water entering a pavement, soaking
the cement concrete layer to form slurry, and being pumped out of the pavement void under …

[HTML][HTML] A past, present, and prospective review on microwave nondestructive evaluation of composite coatings

TW Siang, M Firdaus Akbar, G Nihad Jawad, TS Yee… - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent years have witnessed an increase in the use of composite coatings for numerous
applications, including aerospace, aircraft, and maritime vessels. These materials owe this …

Detectability of concealed cracks in the asphalt pavement layer using air-coupled ground-penetrating radar

S Wang, Z Leng, X Sui - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
The air-coupled ground-penetrating radar (GPR) could be used to detect the concealed
cracks in the asphalt pavement layer at traffic-speed. However, the wide electromagnetic …

[HTML][HTML] From its core to the niche: Insights from GPR applications

F Lombardi, F Podd, M Solla - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Thanks to its non-destructive, high-resolution imaging possibilities and its sensitivity to both
conductive and dielectric subsurface structures, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) has …