Sensors Webinar | Imlaymed: A New Freeware Code for the GPR Imaging in Layered Media
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34th Sensors Webinar
Imlaymed: A New Freeware Code for the GPR Imaging in Layered Media
Imlaymed is a new freeware code that provides a simple approach to addressing the problems of focusing and time depth conversion for the GPR imaging in a layered medium, as well as the problem of the imaging of buried cavities from GPR data. In particular, the different propagation velocities in different layers produce spurious contractions of some targets with respect to others and alter the relative vertical positions and proportions of the targets. Similarly, it is well known that buried cavity appears compressed in a GPR image. Imlaymed mitigates these problems and offers the possibility to work out depth-slices directly in the spatial domain rather than in the time domain. This will be explored in detail at the webinar.
Imlaymed is available to download at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMn0StEIsY
Date: 30 October 2026
Time: 10:00 EDT | 15:00 CET
Webinar ID: 873 9083 8457
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet Our Chair
Department of Engineering of the Environment and the Territory DIAM, University of Calabria;Raffaele Persico is an Associate Professor in Geophysics at the Department of Environmental Engineering of the University of Calabria, Italy. Previously, he was a Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) from 2001 to 2019. His main research interests are in Ground Penetrating Radar data processing, Stepped Frequency GPR Systems, Remote Sensing and TDR probes. He has co-authored about 100 papers on International Journals, plus 4 books, several chapters of books and two Italian Patents. He was General Chairman of the 13th International Ground Penetrating Radar Conference in 2010, Publication Chair of the 15th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium in 2015 and Vice-Chair of the 11th International Workshop on Advanced Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR) in 2021. He was awarded the Christiaan Huygens Medal from the European Geoscience Union EGU in 2021. Together with his colleague Patrizia Capizzi, he has been designated as Chair of the 14th International Workshop on Advanced Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR), which will be held in 2027 (www.gpritalia.it/iwagpr2027). He is an Associate Editor of the International Journals Near Surface Geophysics, Geophysical Prospecting and Sensors. Finally, he was President of the Italian Association of the Ground Penetrating Radar (Associazione Italiana del Georadar) from 2016 to 2023.
Meet Our Speakers
Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment-National Research Council of Italy IREA-CNR;Giuseppe Esposito is an engineer with a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy). In 2022, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) (Chicago, IL, USA). He is currently a researcher at the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA-CNR). His research focuses on radar imaging and signal processing, with particular emphasis on the development of microwave tomography strategies and deep learning pipelines for radar data enhancement and image interpretation. He has co-authored over 50 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and serves as a reviewer for several international scientific journals.
Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance “Giovanni Anania” (DESF), University of Calabria;Fabio Capparelli is a Computer Engineer with a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering for the Internet of Things and a second-level Master’s degree in Electrical Mobility. He currently works as a Software Engineer, with experience in the design and development of software solutions for Linux-based and embedded systems. His professional activities focus on software architecture, backend development, system integration, and the design of tools for data acquisition, processing, and visualization. His interests also include distributed systems, containerized applications, communication protocols, and the development of reliable and maintainable software for industrial and research-oriented applications.
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CET |
| Prof. Dr. Raffaele Persico Chair Introduction |
15:00 - 15:10 |
| Dr. Giuseppe Esposito Main Functionalities of Imlaymed |
15:10 - 15:30 |
| Dr. Fabio Capparelli A Practical Demonstration of Imlaymed |
15:30 - 15:50 |
| Q&A | 15:50 - 16:05 |
| Closing of Webinar Prof. Dr. Raffaele Persico |
16:05 - 16:10 |
Radar Sensors
The Radar Sensors Section publishes original peer-reviewed papers in the field of advanced radar sensors, devices and systems. Both theoretical and experimental articles and comprehensive reviews are considered.
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Guangcai Sun
