Anyone use GPR?
Anyone use GPR?
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Does anyone use ground penetrating radar in their business? I used one in college, and we've been throwing the idea around at the office, but they seem expensive. Anyone actually use them in the real world for practical application? Just curious about cost/effectiveness/usefulness. Thanks.





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GSSI (www.geophysical.com), Sensors and Software (http://www.sensoft.ca/), and Mala Geoscience (http://www.malags.se/) all make commercially available systems for various applications.
I think my company (ENSCO) found the costs (possibly internal) to be too high when they tried doing gpr investigations as a service.
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When I was doing Environmental investigations I found GPR to be very beneficial in defining the limits of landfills, pinpointing large tanks,pipelines or other buried objects. Often the GPR was the only tool to focus our exploration.
Field truthing with a SPT or back hoe was still something that raised my level of confidence. With all due respect to the math folks , I have drilled too much behind Geophysical data to believe an interpretation completely.
The truth will set you free. Best of luck. Geodude
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There are some guys at Texas A & M that claim they can use GPR to find variations in soil moisture content as well as voids, etc. I'm still a big skeptic of their claims; after all, aren't this the same school that (about 20 years ago) considered "aging" a new building on their main campus by spraying a solution of water and bovine excrement all over it?
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Yeah I can relate about the operator knowledge required. A few guys in my graduation class had as their final project writing the how-to manual for the new GPR. From what I hear, it took them all quarter.
Thanks for the good input.
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Watch out for those who claim it can find anything and everything, along with curing the common cold.
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Our firm has used it to locate old graves in a pauper cemetary for a roadway realignment project. Worked well, but we weren't about to calibrate the data with a backhoe! The few times we've used it, we've rented it from the manufacturer. It's been my belief that the best use is where you're trying to find something containing a void.
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OH! you meant for the cold or the flu! Yea, I left out the hot toddy and the chicken soup in case MADD or PETA were visiting the forums...
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Images are very hard to interpret, we never saw what comes in the manual. Advice: Only use it when you are looking for metalic objects or pipes.
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