Leveraging Ground Penetrating Radar Solutions in Underground Surveillance

Since GPR technology has become more affordable and easier to use, it has changed how civil construction engineers, government councils, and project managers involved in large-scale projects work around underground services today.

FREMONT, CA: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) locates utilities using electromagnetic radio waves pulsed into the ground. The energy waves then reflect off underground services and objects buried in the subsurface. Utility engineers use GPR to investigate underground utilities in many different ways, and it is important to detect underground pipes and cables. Construction units can obtain data on what lies below the ground that the right people can interpret to determine the location of underground services using ground penetrating radar.

Using Ground Penetrating Radar can reveal issues with subsurface infrastructure that could otherwise go undetected.

GPR offers a unique advantage over other techniques, allowing workers to detect subsurface issues without digging or causing any disruption accurately.

Quick to set up: GPR does not require connections to utilities. It is easy to set up a ground-penetrating radar since it is non-invasive. It is not necessary to excavate to determine what lies beneath the surface.

It is also possible to penetrate the concrete, soil, and even water with ground-penetrating radar. Due to its versatility, GPR is essential for various purposes, including search and rescue, surveying, and archaeology.

Does not need a connection to the utility: It detects underground utilities without requiring a connection. It can identify utilities because it uses electromagnetic waves to penetrate the ground. A machine can identify the utility locations by bouncing the waves off the ground and back to the machine. The system does not require any other utilities to be connected to it.

Overcomes limitations of electromagnetic locating methods: A major advantage of GPR over electromagnetic (EM) location is that GPR provides better imaging for all types of utility lines, unlike EM. There is no difference between metallic and nonmetallic lines when using GPR since it detects ground disturbances rather than lines.

GPR-only surveys will produce different final drawings from EML-only surveys, with the GPR detecting underground features and recovering more beneath-surface information but unable to identify the various utilities. Although EM surveys identify services and critical information from site reconnaissance, the drawing will not include the additional details that GPR recovers, nor will it be able to detect services that are nonmetallic.