Ground Penetrating Radar
Theory and Practice
- 2nd Edition - October 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Author: Erica Carrick Utsi
- Language: English
Ground Penetrating Radar: Theory and Practice, Second Edition provides well-thought-out, fully updated, and expanded coverage of this NDT, trenchless technique for invest… Read more
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Description
Description
Ground Penetrating Radar: Theory and Practice, Second Edition provides well-thought-out, fully updated, and expanded coverage of this NDT, trenchless technique for investigating the subsurface. Written by a recognized field specialist, the volume clearly explains not only how the technology works with introductions to the underlying physics and formation of signal patterning, but also spotlights how it can be successfully applied, including experiential insights into how parameters such as wavelength, attenuation (loss), environment, target size, and depth need proper consideration in any sampling strategy to obtain good survey results.
Additional chapters explore a variety of methods for velocity calibration and suggest where they may be useful, review data processing, and address signal loss in challenging soil conditions and potential problem environments with a suite of useful resolution best practices. New to this edition are discussions on specialist GPR applications and state-of-the-art innovations (e.g., data digitization tools; machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence to improve detection and reliability in data interpretation; and robotization).
Additional chapters explore a variety of methods for velocity calibration and suggest where they may be useful, review data processing, and address signal loss in challenging soil conditions and potential problem environments with a suite of useful resolution best practices. New to this edition are discussions on specialist GPR applications and state-of-the-art innovations (e.g., data digitization tools; machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence to improve detection and reliability in data interpretation; and robotization).
Key features
Key features
- Covers critical, practical factors in using ground penetrating radar, including troubleshooting appropriate equipment selection
- Explains why wavelengths matter through built-in practice calculations
- Offers insights into how to spot ringing (echo effects) and air signals, and how to distinguish them from subsurface data
- Highlights the importance of understanding the basic physics involved in using a GPR and calibration of transmission velocity by a range of methods
- Builds on known problems to steer the practitioner towards more viable survey procedures
Readership
Readership
Professionals, research academics, and postgraduate students in civil and structural engineering; geotechnical engineering and engineering geology; geophysics and geomorphology; environmental science and engineering; archeology and cultural heritage studies; soil science; hydrology engineering
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Fundamentals of GPR Operation
2. Wavelengths and Why They Matter
3. More Fundamentals of GPR Operation
4. The Effect of Water and Air
5. Velocity Calibration
6. Attenuation or Loss
7. Survey Strategies
8. Data Processing
9. Antennas and Screening
10. Three-Dimensional Data
11. Common GPR Applications
12. Examples of Practical Problems
13. Specialist GPR Applications
14. Multichannel and Single Channel Systems
15. Innovations in Technology
16. Reports and Publication
17. Regulation
2. Wavelengths and Why They Matter
3. More Fundamentals of GPR Operation
4. The Effect of Water and Air
5. Velocity Calibration
6. Attenuation or Loss
7. Survey Strategies
8. Data Processing
9. Antennas and Screening
10. Three-Dimensional Data
11. Common GPR Applications
12. Examples of Practical Problems
13. Specialist GPR Applications
14. Multichannel and Single Channel Systems
15. Innovations in Technology
16. Reports and Publication
17. Regulation
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: October 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the author
About the author
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Erica Carrick Utsi
Erica Carrick Utsi is the former director of GPR manufacturer Utsi Electronics Ltd and former Chairman of the European GPR Association. She is internationally experienced in most applications of GPR, specializing in new engineering adaptations, the maintenance and conservation of historical buildings, training, forensic searches, and research. She has served on the International Scientific Committees for several biennial International Conferences on GPR, International Workshops on Advanced GPR, and the steering committees of academic research projects. Her forensic search experience includes locating WW2 mass graves in the Ukraine, generating evidence for the Irish Mother and Baby Homes Commission, missing person and security searches. Her current work at EMC Radar Consulting includes ongoing research at the royal abbeys of Westminster in London and Dunfermline (Scotland). She is also the author of a wide range of GPR papers and co-author with David Daniels of GPR case histories and known physical principles (2013, DOI: 10.1109/IWAGPR.2013.6601507).
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Consultant, EMC Radar Consulting, Haddenham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK