ImpDAR | An impulse radar processor

ImpDAR is a Python library typically used in Manufacturing, Utilities, Aerospace, Defense applications. ImpDAR has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

ImpDAR is a suite of processing and interpretation tools for impulse radar (targeted for ice-penetrating radar applications but usable for ground-penetrating radar as well). The core processing steps and general terminology come from of the St. Olaf Deep Radar processor, but everything is re-written in python and significant improvements to speed, readability, documentation, and interface have been made across the board. However, this code has a lot of history of contributors--acknowledgment of many of them are preserved in the file headers. ImpDAR is intended to be more flexible than other available options. Support is gradually being added for a variety of file formats. Currently, GSSI, PulseEKKO, Ramac, Blue Systems, DELORES, SEGY, gprMAX, Gecko, and legacy StoDeep files are supported. Available processing steps include various filtering operations, trivial modifications such as restacking, cropping, or reversing data, and a few different geolocation-related operations like interpolating to constant trace spacing. The integrated migration routines are in development but Stolt is working. The primary interface to ImpDAR is through the command line, which allows efficient processing of large volumes of data. An API, centered around the RadarData class, is also available to allow the user to use ImpDAR in other programs. In addition to processing, ImpDAR can also be used for interpreting the radargrams (i.e. picking layers). Picking is generally an interactive process, and there is a GUI for doing the picking; the GUI requires PyQt5, which may be annoying as a source build but is easy to install with Anaconda. The GUI also allows for basic processing steps, with the updates happening to the plot in real time. However, we have not added an 'undo' button to the GUI, so you are stuck with going back to your last saved version if you do not like the interactive results.