In any
excavation project, if underground objects can be detected, a great deal of
trouble, money and time can be saved. A technology called GPR, or ground
penetrating radar, can perform a subsurface imaging scan in order to provide
the evaluation of a site prior to beginning the excavation.
This
scanning system can locate utilities that are buried underground, obstacles and
debris, bedrock, old foundations and other underground debris. The technology
specializes in finding both metallic and non-metallic utilities including
copper, PVC, concrete and plastic pipes and in addition various conduits that
in many cases can not be detected in any other way.
This is an
ideal way to locate the position of buried utilities, storage tanks, drums, and
man made items such as old roads, runways and underground buildings using the
exciting technology. Obvious, if you discover a utility line that is
underground, and for some reason it is not on anyone's map or chart, you will
be glad that you uncovered it.
The process
is not hazardous to the operator of the machine doing the scanning, as it emits
only 1 % of the power of a cell phone signal.
The system
operates by the sending of a small pulse of energy into a material through an
antenna. The strength and the time that the signal takes to return to the
device will create reflections that are then picked up by the recovery system
and stored on digital media. The reproductions then come out as visual
replications of the object, such as man-made objects of pipes, wire, tanks, and
the like.
When it
comes to locating and identifying non-metallic and metallic objects of various
sizes and shapes, this system is very accurate.
GPR has
been in existence for the past 40 years, and of course there have been
improvements over the years, but it has saved many an excavation project
precious time and money by its availability.
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