Constraining the Dielectric Permittivities of the Moon's Subsurface
Using Physics Informed Deep Learning
Abstract
The deeper subsurface layers beyond the lunar regolith are not
well-constrained. Using in-situ lunar penetrating radar data (d) from
Change’E-3 Yutu rover, we invert for its subsurface relative dielectric
permittivity (εr) model. We use a hybrid physics informed convolutional
neural network based deep learning architecture to simultaneously
regress the relationship between εr – d; and using radar forward
modeling to reconstruct radargrams to match the field data d. This dual
pronged inversion approach will ensure predicted radargrams to closely
match the field data and providing reasonable εr estimates. Our training
dataset will incorporate a priori knowledge of existing εr ranges
[1-10] from previous lunar regolith studies. We expect to predict
accurate εr profiles of the lunar subsurface (~200
meters) and generating predicted data that closely matches the field
data.