A Method of Underground Imaging Using Value of Elliptic Orbit Brightness for Detecting Underground Piping

Abstract

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.