Alessandra Pizzuti De Saraka
Improving GPR data processing and interpretation on glaciers through attribute analysis.
Rel. Chiara Colombero, Farbod Khosro Anjom. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Environmental And Land Engineering, 2025
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Abstract
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is often used to map the internal structure of glaciers. Due to the high resistivity of ice, the signal does not undergo strong attenuation phenomena and provides a representation of the ice body in the form of a radargram where ice is mostly electromagnetic transparent. Nevertheless, while travelling inside the glacier, the electromagnetic wave encounters several materials with different degrees of conductivity which cause the attenuation of the signal; this behavior is represented as a series of hyperbolas and scattering events more or less marked on the GPR display. However, the origin of these patterns is open to interpretation and not always obvious when analyzing the reflection amplitude alone.
In order to better investigate the nature of the facies portrayed in the radargrams, we evaluated a series of attributes, which are mostly employed in seismic investigation and GPR surveys in the archaeological domain, in glaciology: more precisely on Indren and Rutor glaciers, located in the Aosta Valley Autonomous Region, Italy
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