Ricerc@Sapienza

SPOT-GPR (release 1.0) is a new freeware tool implementing an innovative Sub-Array Processing method, for the analysis of Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) data with the main purposes of detecting and localizing targets. The software is implemented in Matlab, it has a graphical user interface and a short manual.

This is a software paper, which main objective is to provide practical information on how to use SPOT-GPR release 1.0, a MATLAB®-based software for the analysis of ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles. The software allows detecting targets and estimating their position in a two-dimensional scenario, it has a graphical user interface and implements an innovative sub-array processing method.

SPOT-GPR stands for 'Sub-array Processing Open Tool for GPR applications' and is a MATLAB-based software that can semi-automatically find and localize ('spot') targets in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data. It implements a sub-array processing method, which combines smart-antenna and radar algorithms. In this paper, SPOT-GPR is used to analyse real GPR signals taken from the Open Database of Radargrams of COST Action TU1208.