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2012 GPR Conferences and Symposiums

Published on January 16, 2012 By vadams

As a reference I have put together a list of upcoming 2012 conferences and symposiums related to ground penetrating radar technology. There is a brief description and a link to their web sites for more information. . Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP) Date: March 25-29, 2012 Location: Tucson, [...]

Ground Penetrating Radar Helps Find Noah’s Ark

Published on December 12, 2011 By vadams

With the use of secret military satellite imagery and ground penetrating radar scientists are claiming to have found pieces of Noah’s Ark buried under ice near the peak of Mt. Ararat in Turkey. Two large sections of Noah’s ark are claimed, by Daniel McGivern and his team, to be resting about 350 feet below the [...]

GPR Locates Potential Mass Genocide of Mohawk Children

Published on October 25, 2011 By vadams

A mass grave site of Mohawk children may have been uncovered earlier this month by ground penetrating radar in Brantford, ON, Canada at a residential school for Mohawk children operated by the Church of England and the Vatican from 1832 to 1970. The Mohawk Institute was originally set up by the Anglican Church of England [...]

Ground Penetrating Radar Instrumental In Roman Archaeological Finds

Published on September 12, 2011 By vadams

Roman Amphitheatre Found In England A large Roman Amphitheatre has been discovered buried below the summit of Studforth Hill outside of Aldborough village in Yorkshire England. The team of researchers from Cambridge University was led by a local woman who was told about the legend of a Roman amphitheatre by her grandfather. Until this discovery [...]

Ground Penetrating Radar Locates Body Parts

Published on August 3, 2011 By vadams

Our company has surveyed many cemeteries to map grave sites. Usually this was to construct an accurate site plan of marked and unmarked grave sites and available plots. However, last year we were contracted to conduct a ground penetrating radar survey at a cemetery near Chicago to assist in pending legal proceedings. We waited to [...]

GPR Used To Help Find Mona Lisa!

Published on July 6, 2011 By vadams

An archaeology team lead by Professor Silvano Vinceti in Florence, Italy, are searching for the remains of a woman thought to be the model who sat for Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. This mystery woman is believed to be Lisa Gherardini. After 2 weeks of surveying the Ground Penetrating Radar crew found the location of [...]

GPR Used To Locate Buried ‘Agent Orange’

Published on June 6, 2011 By vadams

Last Thursday a subsurface investigation, by a joint team of 16 Koreans and 10 Americans, began to locate drums of Agent Orange allegedly buried at Camp Carroll U.S. military base in South Korea. This started after decades of silence and suffering that Steve House links to exposure to the dangerous herbicide in 1978 when he [...]

GPR Geophysical Survey on SKIS

Published on March 16, 2011 By vadams

We recently conducted a geophysical survey which initially presented quite a challenge. The project scope was to conduct a GPR geophysical survey of a 700 acre property located near Kitchener, Ontario Canada in the middle of WINTER! The GPR equipment used for this project was a Sensors & Software Pulse EKKO Pro with a 50 [...]

GPR Rescue Radar

Published on February 7, 2011 By vadams

Looks like Sensor’s & Software have done it again! In last month’s Subsurface Views, the company’s newsletter, they announced another ground penetrating radar system with life saving potential. Rescue Radar, as it’s being called, can help locate buried victims of earthquakes, avalanches or building collapses. You are probably aware that ground penetrating radar can penetrate [...]

Ground Penetrating Radar Finds Time Bomb!

Published on January 25, 2011 By vadams

This is a post about some interesting and alarming information I found recently in an article in “Sensors & Software Subsurface Views” which I thought our readers would be interest in. It’s about a potential Time Bomb under German soil. In 1944 and 1945 many German cities were bombed by the allies. Experts estimate that [...]