Science news articles about 'ground penetrating radar'

  • Space radar to improve miners' safety

    ... could, in the near future, include equipping mining machines with ground penetration radars, which are faster and more efficient at detecting weakness in mineshaft walls than visual inspection." ...
  • Scientists head to warming Alaska on ice core expedition

    ... years ago but notes there have been “no boots on the ground.” Through May, Wake, his Ph.D. ... deep drilling sites and use a portable, ground-penetrating radar to determine the ice thickness and internal ...
  • Did termites help Katrina destroy New Orleans floodwalls?

    ... avoid future disasters. Henderson will demonstrate one survey method using ground-penetrating radar at the ESA Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, November 16-19 (see http://www.entsoc ...
  • New technology could revolutionize breast cancer screening

    ... Using this engineering knowledge we built the machine using ground penetrating radar, a similar technique to land mine detection to take four hundred quarter of a second pictures of ...
  • Scientists discover concealed glaciers on Mars at mid-latitudes

    ... identified on Mars, says new research using ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. ... water ice comes in multiple ways. The radar echoes received by the orbiter while passing ...
  • CU-Boulder study shows Maya intensively cultivated manioc 1,400 years ago

    ... Ceren for traces of manioc. To date, 12 structures have been excavated, and others detected by ground-penetrating radar remain buried, he said. Sheets is particularly interested in vessels from a ...
  • Tunnel vision

    ... with Lockheed Martin, DHS S&T is pursuing a fresh approach that uses sophisticated ground penetrating radar. The Tunnel Detection Project is part of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects ...
  • NASA flies over Antarctica to measure icemelt

    ... Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday....

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