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Accurate assessments of soil water content can ensure the quality of construction, reduce construction costs and prevent accidents, among other benefits. In this study, ground penetrating radar (GPR) was used to detect and evaluate changes in soil water content. The GPR signal is usually nonstationary and nonlinear; however, traditional Fourier theory is typically suitable for periodic stationary signals, and cannot reflect the law of the frequency and energy of the GPR signal changing with time. Wavelet transform has good time-frequency localization characteristics, and therefore represents a new method for analyzing and processing GPR signals. According to the time-frequency characteristics of GPR signals, in this paper, a new biorthogonal wavelet basis which was highly matched with the GPR waveform was constructed using the lifting framework of wavelet theory. Subsequently, an evaluation method, namely, the wavelet packet-based energy analysis (WPEA) method, was proposed. The method was utilized to calculate the wavelet packet-based energy indexes (WPEI) of the GPR single-channel signals for clay samples with water contents ranging from 10% to 24%. The research results showed that there was a highly correlated linear relationship between the WPEI and the soil water contents, and the relationship between the two was fitted with a linear fitting function. The feasibility of the method was verified by comparing our results with those obtained using classical wavelet bases to perform the wavelet packet transform. The large-area, continuous scanning measurement method of GPR was shown to be suitable for evaluations of soil water contents in roadbeds, slopes, earth dams, and foundations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13245047","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,13]],"date-time":"2021-12-13T01:29:33Z","timestamp":1639358973000},"page":"5047","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Experimental Research on Evaluation of Soil Water Content Using Ground Penetrating Radar and Wavelet Packet-Based Energy Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8419-1881","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China"},{"name":"Hunan Engineering Research Center of Structural Safety and Disaster Prevention for Urban Underground Infrastructure, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4813-9410","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China"},{"name":"Hunan Engineering Research Center of Structural Safety and Disaster Prevention for Urban Underground Infrastructure, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China"}]},{"given":"Tonghua","family":"Ling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha 410114, China"}]},{"given":"Guihai","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China"},{"name":"Hunan Engineering Research Center of Structural Safety and Disaster Prevention for Urban Underground Infrastructure, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China"}]},{"given":"Youlin","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China"},{"name":"Hunan Engineering Research Center of Structural Safety and Disaster Prevention for Urban Underground Infrastructure, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Shen, X., Foster, T., Baldi, H., Dobreva, I., Burson, B., Hays, D., Tabien, R., and Jessup, R. 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