How to: Ground Penetrating Radar field setup

16min 17s Intermediate

This video shows how to operate a ground penetrating radar (GPR) instrument in the field, including set-up, starting the surveying, and packing up. GPR is a near-surface geophysics method.

Instrument featured: Noggin GPR from Sensors & Software.

Find teaching resources, quick guides, and how to borrow instruments on the Geophyscis Field Education page.

Keypoints:

  • Instrument set-up
  • Safety considerations and instrument care
  • Starting a survey 
  • Packing up

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This module considers the capabilities and limitations of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in urban/highly developed settings and for forensic applications. Students are asked to draw on their current understanding of common medical imaging methods and draw comparisons to GPR. 

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