ImpDAR: an open-source impulse radar processor
Despite widespread use of radio-echo sounding (RES) in glaciology and broad distribution of processed radar products, the glaciological community has no standard software for processing impulse RES data. Dependable, fast and collection-system/platform-independent processing flows could facilitate co...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:229f81f0c0354057b6a97badc0fc56a6 2023-05-15T13:29:35+02:00 ImpDAR: an open-source impulse radar processor David A. Lilien Benjamin H. Hills Joshua Driscol Robert Jacobel Knut Christianson 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.44 https://doaj.org/article/229f81f0c0354057b6a97badc0fc56a6 EN eng Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305520000440/type/journal_article https://doaj.org/toc/0260-3055 https://doaj.org/toc/1727-5644 doi:10.1017/aog.2020.44 0260-3055 1727-5644 https://doaj.org/article/229f81f0c0354057b6a97badc0fc56a6 Annals of Glaciology, Vol 61, Pp 114-123 (2020) Ice thickness measurements radio-echo sounding remote sensing Meteorology. Climatology QC851-999 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.44 2023-03-12T01:31:55Z Despite widespread use of radio-echo sounding (RES) in glaciology and broad distribution of processed radar products, the glaciological community has no standard software for processing impulse RES data. Dependable, fast and collection-system/platform-independent processing flows could facilitate comparison between datasets and allow full utilization of large impulse RES data archives and new data. Here, we present ImpDAR, an open-source, cross-platform, impulse radar processor and interpreter, written primarily in Python. The utility of this software lies in its collection of established tools into a single, open-source framework. ImpDAR aims to provide a versatile standard that is accessible to radar-processing novices and useful to specialists. It can read data from common commercial ground-penetrating radars (GPRs) and some custom-built RES systems. It performs all the standard processing steps, including bandpass and horizontal filtering, time correction for antenna spacing, geolocation and migration. After processing data, ImpDAR's interpreter includes several plotting functions, digitization of reflecting horizons, calculation of reflector strength and export of interpreted layers. We demonstrate these capabilities on two datasets: deep (~3000 m depth) data collected with a custom (3 MHz) system in northeast Greenland and shallow (<100 m depth, 500 MHz) data collected with a commercial GPR on South Cascade Glacier in Washington. Article in Journal/Newspaper Annals of Glaciology glacier Greenland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Cascade Glacier ENVELOPE(-140.504,-140.504,60.249,60.249) Greenland Annals of Glaciology 61 81 114 123 |
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Despite widespread use of radio-echo sounding (RES) in glaciology and broad distribution of processed radar products, the glaciological community has no standard software for processing impulse RES data. Dependable, fast and collection-system/platform-independent processing flows could facilitate comparison between datasets and allow full utilization of large impulse RES data archives and new data. Here, we present ImpDAR, an open-source, cross-platform, impulse radar processor and interpreter, written primarily in Python. The utility of this software lies in its collection of established tools into a single, open-source framework. ImpDAR aims to provide a versatile standard that is accessible to radar-processing novices and useful to specialists. It can read data from common commercial ground-penetrating radars (GPRs) and some custom-built RES systems. It performs all the standard processing steps, including bandpass and horizontal filtering, time correction for antenna spacing, geolocation and migration. After processing data, ImpDAR's interpreter includes several plotting functions, digitization of reflecting horizons, calculation of reflector strength and export of interpreted layers. We demonstrate these capabilities on two datasets: deep (~3000 m depth) data collected with a custom (3 MHz) system in northeast Greenland and shallow (<100 m depth, 500 MHz) data collected with a commercial GPR on South Cascade Glacier in Washington. |
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