Software Overview
Software is an important component of GPR. Advanced applications require processing and the ability to display data in a variety of forms. Sensors & Software team of experienced GPR professionals are constantly developing analysis tools and adding to our unique range of software packages to support our GPR systems.
EKKO_Project is the flagship solution for users requiring full GPR project data management. EKKO_Project provides a family of processing and analysis modules software in an integrated user environment. In addition, a range of application-specific software like ConquestView and IcePicker support individual user needs.
EKKO_Project
EKKO_Project features unique managing and display of GPR line data and ancillary data, enhanced viewing of file attributes, and the biggest benefit – use of a single file to store all information in a GPR project. All GPR data, GPS, topography, photos, notes etc. are housed in a single Project (.gpz) file that can be added to throughout your project lifetime.
View GPR lines using LineView. The MapView window displays a map image of grids and GPS paths. Output information as spreadsheet (.csv), Google Earth (.kmz) and AutoCAD (.dxf) reports.
EKKO_Project can be enhanced with the optional Interpretation, SliceView and Processing Modules.
Interpretation Module
Optional module for EKKO_Project
Interactively pick, label and export GPR feature attributes for a wide range of reporting requirements.
Each interpretation has automatic or user-defined properties like color, style, markers and marker size.
Often-used interpretations can become “templates” available for new projects.
SliceView Module
Optional module for EKKO_Project
SliceView creates GPR depth slices of grid data quickly and easily. Using systematic grid data acquisition integrated into pulseEKKO PRO, Noggin or Conquest systems, images at multiple depths are generated in minutes.
SliceView 3D Visualization
Requires SliceView module.
SliceView supports 3D volume data in HDF and CSV file formats for easy use in third-party 3D visualization programs such as Voxler, which provides many display options including volumes, variable-opacity views, isosurfaces and orthogonal or oblique slices, rotation and different colormaps.
Bridge Deck Condition Report Module
Optional module for EKKO_Project that requires the Interpretation module.
Operators follow ASTM standard methodologies to easily interpret GPR data collected on reinforced concrete structures and generate a report in PDF format.
Bridge Deck Condition Report features:
- Rebar Response Amplitude maps – including an ASTM Attenuation Map that indicates areas of possible deterioration
- Statistics on the minimum, maximum and average amplitude, reinforcement depth and spacing
- Several fields for the GPR operator to fill in including the survey location, number of lanes and the GPR system used
Pavement Structure Report Module
Optional module for EKKO_Project that requires the Interpretation module.
Subsurface layers are added to GPR lines and can be correlated to cores. Information is output to a standard report in PDF format.
Pavement Structure Report features:
- Pavement thickness charts displaying the thicknesses of subsurface layers such as asphalt and granular
- Statistics including the minimum, maximum and average layer thicknesses
Processing Module
Optional module for EKKO_Project
The Processing Module allows data editing and advanced data processing including spatial and temporal filters, migration, instantaneous attributes, and amplitude spectra.
ConquestView
ConquestView software generates depth slices and cross-sectional images of concrete structures on a PC.
Designed for advanced analysis and report generation, ConquestView enables reprocessing, printing and archiving of Conquest data.
ConquestView 3D Visualization
ConquestView supports 3D volume data in HDF and CSV file formats for easy use in third-party 3D visualization programs such as Voxler, which provides many display options including volumes, variable-opacity views, isosurfaces and orthogonal or oblique slices, rotation and different colourmaps.
IcePicker
The IcePicker software package automatically picks the ice bottom reflector and extracts the ice thickness at every point. The ice thickness data are saved as standard spreadsheet files for export to plotting programs.
QuickMap
QuickMap for SnowScan makes snow depth visualization easy.
QuickMap enables fast creation of colour-coded ski hill snow depth maps on a PC. When the SnowScan system is run with a GPS for positional information, the GPR and GPS data sets can be combined to produce colour snow depth maps.
GeoTomCG
GeoTomCG is tomographic analysis software used to process and display 2D and 3D velocity (or attenuation) information from borehole and transillumination GPR data.
