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Using of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for investigate the subsurface archaeological features of Babylon, the ancient city (Mounts zoona)

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) method has been used in the province of Babylon, the ancient city  (constituted mounts zoona) archeological site The study area is located South of the city of Hilla by 40 km   between longitudes 44˚ 24΄ 40˝ E to 44˚ 27΄ 00˝ E, and latitudes 32˚ 31΄ 10 ˝ N to 32˚ 33΄ 00˝ N,

The type of GPR that used in the survey fieldwork was of Malå Geoscience / Sweden type (RAMAC /GPR). The constituted mounts zoona  district  are surveyed using Seventy – four  parallel profiles trending S-N ,N-S , E-W and W-E using the available antenna 160 MHz and 450 MHz, with Five meter spacing between each other are acquired the round-trip survey was conducted for ease and speed of fieldwork for both antenna 160 MHz and 450 MHz taking this into consideration in the interpretation and take special area with dimensions 20*20 meter according to the first shape anomalies individual profiles with one meter between the old the profiles that spacing Five meter also direction longitudinal and transverse also the round-trip survey was conducted for ease and speed of fieldwork was surveyed depending on the result of the regional survey.

It is found that the upper zone of the constituted mounts Zoona characterized by dried clay and sandy soil with brocken archaeological materials, The second zone shows a prominent low resistivity zone  probably caused by the moisture in this region that reduces the resistivity. The thickness of this layer is different from parts of the site to the others. The third deeper zone is typical for archaeological walls. Some of the main anomalies, may refer to buried archaeological remains of clay brick walls

The 2D and 3D view of the constituted mounts zoona  show that the archaeological anomalies are concentrated mainly in the SE part of the district with higher values of the height of the archaeological walls that range between (6-8) meters and reach to more than (10) meters. At the parts of the study area some walls are with low height that range 4-6 meters.

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Publication Date
Mon Feb 18 2019
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Physics
Automated method for buried object detecting using ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey

  Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a nondestructive geophysical technique that uses electromagnetic waves to evaluate subsurface information. A GPR unit emits a short pulse of electromagnetic energy and is able to determine the presence or absence of a target by examining the reflected energy from that pulse. GPR is geophysical approach that use band of the radio spectrum. In this research the function of GPR has been summarized as survey different buried objects such as (Iron, Plastic(PVC), Aluminum) in specified depth about (0.5m) using antenna of 250 MHZ, the response of the each object can be recognized as its shapes, this recognition have been performed using image processi

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Publication Date
Wed Feb 08 2023
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
Study the Possibility of using Ground-Penetrating Radar to Detect Walls and Archaeological Finds underground

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is one of the geophysical methods that utilize electromagnetic waves in the detection of subjects below the surface to record relative position and shape of archaeological features in 2D and 3D. GPR method was applied in detecting buried archaeological structure in study area in a location within the University of Baghdad. GPR with 3D interpretation managed to locate buried objects at the depth of (1m) . GPR Survey has been carried (12) vertical lines and (5) horizontal lines using frequency antenna (500) MHZ .

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Publication Date
Thu Apr 28 2022
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
Detection of unmarked graves using Ground Penetrating Radar

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is one of the Remote Sensing methods that utilize electromagnetic waves in the detection of subjects below the surface to record Once the data were collected, it could be presented in map and 2D and 3D. GPR method was applied in detecting graves (Tel Alags archaeological) fact, within the administrative border to spend Rumitha can be challenging. Due to the sensitivity of these sites, the challenge is to explore the subsurface without disturbing the soil Some cemeteries are hundreds of years old. Often records are vague or incomplete and there may be serious doubt about the precise extent of a cemetery .GPR is the most practical way to sort out the site was to carry out a detailed grid survey. A Noggin 250

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Publication Date
Sun Sep 29 2019
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
The Use of Ground Penetrating Radar to Assess the Concrete

Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) is a modern and promising geophysical technique for near-subsurface exploring and observing because of its characteristic working scheme (instantaneous underground radargram displaying and subsurface features preserving during the detection tests). In this technique a very high and/ or ultra-high electromagnetic radiation frequencies were utilized to be transmitted to the targeted underground area, then the reflected ones which occur because of the sudden changes in the medium electric properties or texture would be recorded and processed to achieve the final GPR radargram.

     The main goal of this study is to find out the GPR radiation extension which is suitable for concrete

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Publication Date
Sat Sep 30 2023
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
The Simulation of Old Human Remains Detecting Utilizing Ground Penetrating Radar Image Processing

     Many Iraqi provinces had collective cemeteries, especially in the middle and southern regions of Iraq, but many of those cemetery locations are undefined yet. Ground penetration radar has two features that make it optimal from a geophysical perspective for shallowly detecting sensitive materials near the surface. First, the instantaneous image is formed upon scanning, called a radargram. Second, the non-destructive inference of the scanned materials. For these two reasons, this technique was chosen to conduct a simulation process to reveal the old human remains in Iraq's central and southern areas using another model with the same physical feature (old burial) at the AL-Khamisiya site, Thi-Qar province.

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Publication Date
Mon Feb 04 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
The archaeological and religious sites on the city of Babylon

The archaeological and religious sites play a prominent role in the rest of the other tourist activities as cultural and spiritual needs that can not be dispensed with. Archaeological sites represent cultural origins of the nation. Religious sites represent the state of man's orientation to God in places of worship . The focus was on the city of Babylon because it is an ancient city and tourist because of its characteristics and elements. The importance of the city of Babylon is illustrated by highlighting its archeological and religious status through its geographical distribution. This gives the subject special importance for the purpose of knowing the city's important sites. And come out with a number of results and a set of recommend

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Publication Date
Sat Dec 30 2023
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
Application of 2D Electrical Resistivity Method and Ground Penetration Rader for Detection of the Archaeological Remains in Kish Site, Babylon, Iraq

     The 2D electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is a non-destructive method with good efficiency to detect shallow subsurface features. The archeological subsurface features were investigated with this method in most cases with the assistance of other methods such as GPR method. Eleven 2D ERI profiles were carried out to investigate the subsurface archeological features in the Kish site in the Babylon area. The 2D electrical resistivity survey was achieved with ABEM Terrameter-LS2 Device and 30 electrodes with 1-meter spacing between the adjacent electrodes along each profile. The length of the profile is 29 meters and the spacing between the adjacent profiles is 3 meters. The software RES2DINV was used to obtain the final inverted

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Publication Date
Mon Oct 28 2019
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
Exploration of A Cemetery Using Ground Penetration Radar

     Ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology is used to determine the extent to which this technique can detect with a high-frequency range from 10 MHz to 1000 MHz into the ground by a transmitting antenna and A graveyard was found beneath the depth of the three meters under Surface of the earth in the shrine of the Prophet Houd and Saleh in Al-Najaf Governorate surveyed by through 4 tracks. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a device that transmits short pulses of electromagnetic energy with pulse duration about 1 ns to 20 ns. applying the filter Time- Zero to the same profile at a depth (3m) , Two types of antennas were used in this study, with two different frequencies antennas (250, 500 )MHz Three tracks (23,25,2

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Publication Date
Fri Dec 24 2021
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
Morphology Detection in Archaeological Ancient Sites by Using UAVs/Drones Data and GIS techniques

    Today, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or Drones are a valuable source of data on inspection, surveillance, mapping and 3D modelling matters. Drones can be considered as the new alternative of classic manned aerial photography due to their low cost and high spatial resolution. In this study, drones were used to study archaeological sites. The archaeological Nineveh site, which is a very famous site located in heart of the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq, was chosen. This site was the largest capital of the Assyrian Empire 3000 years ago. The site contains an external wall that includes many gates, most of which were destroyed when Daesh occupied the city in 2014. The local population of the city of Mosul has also large

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Publication Date
Thu Apr 27 2017
Journal Name
Ibn Al-haitham Journal For Pure And Applied Sciences
Detection of Human Remain Using GPR Technique

    In this work, animal bones with different shapes and sizes were used to study the characteristics of the ground penetrating Radar system wares reflected by these bones. These bones were buried underground in different depths and surrounding media. The resulting data showed that the detection of buried bones with the GPR technology is highly dependent upon the surrounding media that the bones were buried in. Humidity is the main source of signal loss in such application because humidity results in low signal-to-noise ratio which leads to inability to distinguish between the signal reflected by bones from that reflected by the dopes  in the media such as rock .

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