Imaging of Insect Hole in Living Tree Trunk Based on Joint Driven Algorithm of Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering

Trunk pests have always been one of the most important species of tree pests. Trees eroded by trunk pests will be blocked in the transport of nutrients and water and will wither and die or be broken by strong winds. Most pests are social and distributed in the form of communities inside trees. However, it is difficult to know from the outside if a tree is infected inside. A new method for the non-invasive detecting of tree interiors is proposed to identify trees eroded by trunk pests. The method is based on electromagnetic inverse scattering. The scattered field data are obtained by an electromagnetic wave receiver. A Joint-Driven algorithm is proposed to realize the electromagnetic scattered data imaging to determine the extent and location of pest erosion of the trunk. This imaging method can effectively solve the problem of unclear imaging in the xylem of living trees due to the small area of the pest community. The Joint-Driven algorithm proposed by our group can achieve accurate imaging with a ratio of pest community radius to live tree radius equal to 1:60 under the condition of noise doping. The Joint-Driven algorithm proposed in this paper reduces the time cost and computational complexity of tree internal defect detection and improves the clarity and accuracy of tree internal defect inversion images.