Abstract Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-destructive detection technology. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) of GPR data promise for the quantitative characterization of the earth’s shallow subsurface parameters, which is useful for the interpretation and subsurface mapping. In this paper, we present a full-waveform inversion target imaging framework for GPR. In the method, the singular value decomposition (SVD) and least squares (LS) methods are used to denoise the measured scattering field. Secondly, the con…