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Infrastructure Outlook: Radar Tomography Provides an Underground Point Cloud

January 31, 2016 - in Column

By Andrew D. Lund, GISP Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) was first patented in 1904 by Dr. Christian Hülsmeyer, a German scientist. It wasn’t until the 1970s, however, that GPR became a widely used tool for underground (or under-ice) surveying. Since then,…