title: Geological disaster survey based on Curvelet transform with borehole Ground Penetrating Radar in Tonglushan old mine site.
abstract: Tonglushan old mine site located in Huangshi City, China, is very famous in the world. However, some of the ruins had suffered from geological disasters such as local deformation, surface cracking, in recent years. Structural abnormalities of rock-mass in deep underground were surveyed with borehole ground penetrating radar (GPR) to find out whether there were any mined galleries or mined-out areas below the ruins. With both the multiresolution analysis and sub-band directional of Curvelet transform, the feature information of targets' GPR signals were studied on Curvelet transform domain. Heterogeneity of geotechnical media and clutter jamming of complicated background of GPR signals could be conquered well, and the singularity characteristic information of typical rock mass signals could be extracted. Random noise had be removed by thresholding combined with Curvelet and the statistical characteristics of wanted signals and the noise, then direct wave suppression and the spatial distribution feature extraction could obtain a better result by making use of Curvelet transform directional. GprMax numerical modeling and analyzing of the sample data have verified the feasibility and effectiveness of our method. It is important and applicable for the analyzing of the geological structure and the disaster development about the Tonglushan old mine site.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
authors.forename: Xinjian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: School of Electric Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: School of Electric Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors.forename: Zhijie
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
authors.forename: Zenghui
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
authors.forename: Baoming
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004190:Disasters; D005843:Geography; D005844:Geology; D008906:Mining; D011825:Radar; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires