ABSTRACT

One colleague who offered feedback on this book uses GPR almost solely in a for-profit enterprise, and his company does very well locating many types of buried materials for engineering purposes. The small workshop showed the author that the next obvious step in learning about GPR once the basic collection and processing skills have been acquired comes from thinking about the nature of the geological and cultural reflections collected. If GPR results can be used to drive excavations, and then the excavation data can be integrated into the aerially extensive data set produced with GPR, research topics can be broadened in ways not even realized by most researchers. It is still the responsibility of informed, knowledgeable, and experienced GPR interpreters to determine how those data are used and how informed, and informative, the interpretations of these impressive three-dimensional packages of information will be.