506 Ground Penetrating Radar — Principles, Practice and Processing.
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a technology that uses radio waves to image into the subsurface to detect buried objects and boundaries. It has found widespread use in geology for more than 30 years for mapping geological structure and stratigraphy as well as groundwater and mineral exploration. GPR is also used in related areas such as archaeology, glaciology, forensics, utility locating and structure assessment. This course covers a bit of everything about GPR. The classroom agenda covers basic GPR theory, instrumentation and survey design. The field portion takes the class outside to collect some data including GPR cross-sections integrated with GPS and a grid survey over a rectangular area of about 15x15 meters. Afterward, we will return to the classroom, install software on the students PC's and transfer the data from the GPR system to everyone's computers. Students will learn about plotting data as cross-sections, 2D depth slices and 3D cubes. At the same time we will discuss principles of interpreting GPR data and how to present GPR data effectively for scientific papers and reports. GPS integration and displaying data in Google Earth is also covered. Case studies are presented to expose students to data from other application areas.
Saturday, 3 November 2018
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Room 105
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