When underground piping for a water supply or gas supply is buried, some obstacles such as unknown pipes or stones can be encountered. To avoid such situations, an examination of the underground condition from the ground surface is needed. For such an examination, the ultrashallow reflection method is used. We use a giant-magnetostriction vibrator as a seismic source and a magnified cross-correlation analysis as an analysis method. This analysis is performed to obtain the arrival time of waves reflected from underground objects. In this study, an underground imaging method is proposed using the magnified cross-correlation analysis and a simulation is conducted. Then the experiment of detecting a buried concrete block is conducted. Finally, the imaging method is applied to the experimental result, and then the underground image is obtained. With this imaging method, the position of the buried concrete block can be estimated.

Yuichi

Recently, Water and gas pipes are developed frequently because of the increased urban population. When the underground piping is constructed, drawings and signs are needed to drill the ground. However, underground pipings and other buried objects are often buried in different locationscompared with drawings. Underground pipings, the rock and the gravel interfere with construction. It is necessary to avoid this situation. To determine the construction of underground pipes, the non-destructive imaging method previously detects the pipe inside the ground. This paper describes a system of ultrashallow underground imaging method using seismic reflection and seismic giant magnetostrictive transducer. We apply a surface wave analysis using a giant magnetostrictive transducer. We improve the accuracy of P wave velocity. For the high-efficiency setup and the underground imaging succeed. This system combines ultrashallow seismic reflection and the ultra-magnetostrictive transducer. It provides the practical system.

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When underground piping for a water or gas supply is buried, the construction site should be checked in advance, referring to the plan or sign. However, some obstacles, such as unknown pipes or stones, can be encountered. To avoid these cases, an examination of the underground condition is required. The purpose of this study is to detect underground objects that exist in the ultra-shallow layer, where 2-3 m below the surface, and to obtain underground image which is easy to see intuitively. For detection, seismic method is applied. However, this method has two downsides. One is a generally used seismic source not having reproducibility. The other is mixing Rayleigh wave which is one of the surface waves and reflected waves. To compensate these downsides, giantmagnetostriction vibrator was used as a seismic source, and magnified cross-correlation analysis was proposed. Underground image was obtained using combinations of them. In this paper, as the method of underground imaging, new algorithm of elliptic orbit brightness value it was developed by the authors was used.