Georadar (GPR)

Engineering projects, rural field planning, archaeological research, among others, often need to use the GPR Method for subsurface research, in order to map:

• Metallic pipes, pipes, electrical cables, utilities in general;
• Plastic drums;
• Contaminants in the water table;
• Fossils;
• Buried objects;
• Fuel tanks;
• among others.

The GPR Method basically works according to the illustrations in the figures on the side. For example, if there is a metal tube in subsurface, it can be identified as described in Figure 2.

1. an electromagnetic wave is emitted by the GPR transmitter;
2. the wave travels through the medium until it is reflected by the material change (in the case of the figures, from the ground to the metallic barrel),;
3. generation of the reflected wave, which is captured by the GPR receiver.;
4. this investigative process continues in a linear sense as the operator moves the GPR equipment to the surface..