Guidance needed for realistic buried pipe simulations using gprMax

[Manar Bakr]

Hello everyone,

My name is Manar, and I am a master’s student working on AI-based analysis of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data. I have collected some real GPR scans of buried pipes, but I need to generate additional simulated data using gprMax.

I am trying to simulate the following scenarios:

Plastic and metallic pipes

Dry, wet soil, and sand environments

Various pipe diameters and burial depths

Empty vs. water-filled pipes

Horizontal, vertical, and inclined pipes


I am still learning gprMax, and although I have read the documentation, my results are not yet realistic or consistent with real GPR scans.

I would greatly appreciate any guidance, example models, recommended parameter settings, or references that could help me generate more accurate simulations.

Thank you very much for your time and support.

Best regards,
Manar

[Samuel Hailemariam]

hello manar, Read this document https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/optimizing-the-complex-refractive-index-model-for-estimating-the....

It helps u some information about how to model heterogenous material ...

[Mehul Bagaria]

Hi,
Thanks for sharing the reference. When I try to open the link, it seems to show a “page does not exist” error.

I am currently trying to mimic real-world heterogeneous material configurations using external geometry and material definitions via HDF5, using the #geometry_objects_read functionality in gprMax. If you are aware of any resources, examples, or references related to this approach, I would really appreciate your guidance.

Thanks again for your help.