What is it about?

Ground penetrating radar is a method used to look into the subsurface. It is popular among geologists, engineers, and archaeologists. Data collected with a ground penetrating radar system usually needs to be processed to make interpretation easier. While commercial software exists to do this, the cost ist often quite high (more than $1000). This article presents a free software to process and visualize.

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Why is it important?

An important aspect of science is that researchers must be able to verify other researchers' work to make sure that there are no mistakes or bad interpretations. If a researcher first needs to buy a $1000 software to be able to do this, then this limits the researchers' ability to check someone else's work. Free software avoids this problem. Another reason for free ground penetrating radar software is that it allows instructors to teach students how to interpret ground penetrating radar without having to pay large sums of money for a software license for each student.

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My hope is that this software will be useful for a wide range of ground penetrating radar users. Ideally, researchers can contribute their newly developed methods to the software (it is hosted on a collaborative software development platform https://github.com/NSGeophysics/GPRPy ). This would make their method instantly available to a wide range of ground penetrating radar users. If you find the software useful, please send me an email. I have no overview over how many people download and use the software, so by emailing me, you help me keep track which will help me when I go up for tenure.

Alain Plattner
University of Alabama

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This page is a summary of: GPRPy: Open-source ground-penetrating radar processing and visualization software, The Leading Edge, May 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
DOI: 10.1190/tle39050332.1.
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