Ground Penetrating Radar Field Assignment - due May 4th

The objective here is to initiate and complete a GPR survey of your own using our Mala GPR system. My GEOL 595 class is also using our GPR equipment so we will have to arrange times for equipment use.

1. Recall our little experiment on the east side of the Science Complex. As you moved away (west) from the Forest Service Research Building, the wall/foundation created an anomaly as did something in the subsurface. You could do a number of lines parallel to the original with a couple of cross lines to figure out what caused the hyperbolic anomaly in the first section. After you get good signals at 200 mHz, see what the same place looks like at 100 mHz.

2. Contact the manager of one of the local cemeteries and tell him we are trying to establish some protocols for using GPR in archeological and forensic applications. Thus collecting GPR profiles across known graves would give some ground truth for future work. You'll have to be fairly sensitive and diplomatic in getting permission and should suggest working at times of little traffic in the cemetery. If you care to work out the logistics, this could be pretty interesting. My guess is that you will want 200 mHz and 100 mHz antennas.

3. Think of something interesting, challenging and rewarding on your own and let me know what it is.

Teams of two to three can work together to collect the data. However, each individual is responsible for their own data and the processing and interpretation of those data. I want a well-written report on your experiment from each participant.

Turn in a well-presented, nicely written and illustrated report detailing your experimental method and interpretation with no more than two pages of precise text.