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Clutter obscures potential targets and makes traditional interpretation highly laborious and subjective. The proposed framework applies unsupervised machine learning by computing local statistical attributes over sliding windows and clustering them into formation groups. Fully automatic segmentation highlights boundaries between formations and reveals hidden structures.","Edinburgh Research Explorer  \nAutomatic Segmentation of Radar Data from the Chang'E-4 Mission Using Unsupervised Machine Learning: A Data-Driven Interpretation Approach  \nCitation for published version:  \nGiannakis, I, Mcdonald, C, Feng, J, Zhou, F, Su, Y, Martin-Torres, J, Zorzano, MP, Warren, C, Giannopoulos, A & Leontides, G 2024, 'Automatic Segmentation of Radar Data from the Chang'E-4 Mission Using Unsupervised Machine Learning: A Data-Driven Interpretation Approach', Icarus, vol. 417, 116108.  \n[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116108](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116108)  \nDigital Object Identifier (DOI):  \n10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116108  \nLink:  \nLink to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer  \nDocument Version:  \nPeer reviewed version  \nPublished In:  \nIcarus  \nGeneral rights  \nCopyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.  \nTake down policy  \nThe University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. 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Jul. 2024  \nAUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF RADAR DATA FROM THE CHANG’E-4 MISSION USING UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING: A DATA-DRIVEN INTERPRETATION APPROACH  \nIraklis Giannakis,  \nUniversity of Aberdeen, School of Geosciences Aberdeen, United Kingdom [iraklis.giannakis@abdn.ac.uk](iraklis.giannakis@abdn.ac.uk)  \nCiaran McDonald,  \nRSK Geophysics  \nHemel Hempstead, United Kingdom [ciaran_mcdonald@outlook.com](ciaran_mcdonald@outlook.com)  \nJianqing Feng  \nPlanetary Science Institute Denver, USA [jfeng@psi.edu](jfeng@psi.edu)  \nFeng Zhou  \nChina University of Geosciences (Wuhan) Wuhan, China [zhoufeng@cug.edu.cn](zhoufeng@cug.edu.cn)  \nYan Su  \nChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China [suyan@nao.cas.cn](suyan@nao.cas.cn)  \nJavier Martin-Torres Maria-Paz Zorzano  \nUniversity of Aberdeen, School of Geosciences Centro de Astrobiologia, CSIC-INTA, Torrejon de Ardoz  \nAberdeen, United Kingdom Madrid, Spain  \n[javier.martin-torres@abdn.ac.uk](javier.martin-torres@abdn.ac.uk) [zorzanomm@cab.inta-csic.es](zorzanomm@cab.inta-csic.es)  \nCraig Warren Antonios Giannopoulos  \nNorthumbria University The University of Edinburgh  \nNorthumbria, United Kingdom Edinburgh, United Kingdom  \n[craig.warren@northumbria.ac.uk](craig.warren@northumbria.ac.uk) [a.giannopoulos@ed.ac.uk](a.giannopoulos@ed.ac.uk)  \nGeorgios Leontidis  \nInterdisciplinary Centre for Data & AI,  \nUniversity of Aberdeen  \nAberdeen, United Kingdom  \n[georgios.leontidis@abdn.ac.uk](georgios.leontidis@abdn.ac.uk)  \nABSTRACT  \n1 Chang’E-3, E-4 and E-5 were the first planetary missions with in-situ ground-penetrating radar (GPR)  \n2 in their scientific payloads. Apart from the Chang’E missions, in-situ GPR has also been used in the  \n3 Martian missions Tianwen-1 and Perseverance, establishing GPR as a mainstream and pivotal tool in  \n4 the new era of planetary exploration. Despite its widespread use in planetary science, interpreting  \n5 GPR data from the Chang’E-4 mission is still challenging, with varying and ambiguous interpretations  \n6 offered by different researchers. This is primarily due to the complexity and heterogeneity of the  \n7 Lunar subsurface, which results to a difficult to interpret radagram with low signal-to-clutter ratio.  \n8 Clutter masks potential targets and makes interpretation a laborious and highly subjective process. To  \n9 tackle this, we interpret the GPR data from Chang’E-4 mission using a novel processing paradigm  \n10 based on un-supervised machine learning. 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