Precision real-time positioning for fast geophysical prospection

✍ Scribed by Jürg Leckebusch

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 235 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1075-2196
• DOI: 10.1002/arp.269

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In this short report high‐precision surveying instruments such as an RTK‐GPS and a tracking total station are integrated with a ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) system on a motorized sensor platform. This enables real‐time navigation and provides accurate three‐dimensional coordinates in the national grid system for each geophysical measurement. The correlation between the different data sets is ensured by a unique ID that is attached to each coordinate. As a result of this surveys become much faster and are of higher quality. Experience from a number of GPR surveys will be described, showing the high positional accuracy that can be obtained. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.