Security, emergency measures and military uses of GPR abound. GPR’s unique sensitivity to non-metallic structures embedded in soils, rocks and building materials results in GPR seeing use in diverse applications such as search and rescue, tunnel location, intrusion detection, UXO, landmine and buried IED detection.
UXO & Landmines
Intrusion Monitoring
Search & Rescue
UXO & Landmines
Military uses of GPR focus primarily on the location and detection of buried explosive devices. For area clearing, GPR is used on ranges and old sites to identify unexploded ordnance (UXO). More recent live campaign applications involve the real-time location and identification of buried improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and buried fusing mechanisms.
Intrusion Monitoring
Security uses of GPR are wide ranging. A common application is the location of embedded wires and cables in structures. Location of buried bunkers, tunnels and buried caches are areas of growing interest. The ability to sense human motion through walls and underground sees GPR being used for intrusion detection.
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Search & Rescue
Emergency response teams are now seeing benefit in using GPR to detect living victims buried in damaged buildings, landslide and avalanche debris. GPR's ability to respond to a wide range of materials provides the ability to sense victim movement. With specialized time-lapse data recording, immediate on-site indications of the presence and location of buried victims is now routinely available in specialized products such as Rescue Radar.