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GPR technician using StructureScan Mini XT

Ground penetrating Radar Saves Mistakes

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September 16, 2019

Here’s how two professional concrete scanners are using GPR, how they get the most out of it, and their thoughts on accessories designed to make their jobs easier.

Subsurface Utility Engineering Group To Hold D.C. Event

Subsurface Utility Engineering Association Conference in Washington, D.C.

August 20, 2019

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The Subsurface Utility Engineering Association (SUEA) national conference is being held Sept. 25-26, 2019.

Surveying to the Inferno and the Heavens?

Kristopher M. Kline PLS

November 13, 2018

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Surveyors spend considerable time and effort determining the horizontal limits of property ownership, but many aspects of the surveying profession bring a vertical component into the determination of property rights.

Agenda Announced for SUE Association Conference

Conference to be Held July 26

July 20, 2018

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The organizational conference will feature a member of Congress and thought leaders from the SUE industry.

DGT Associates Partners with Geolantis

Partnership Provides Advanced Surveying Workflow

May 15, 2018

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DGT first U.S. firm to adopt Geolantis subsurface utility mapping platform.

Monitoring, the Non-Destructive Way

In geophysical surveys, ground penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction technologies offer advantages over expensive and time-consuming drilling

Brian Jones

November 23, 2015

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Pardon the pun, but geophysical surveys can be the bedrock of today’s environmental projects. Applications range from locating abandoned underground storage tanks and utilities, to complex mapping of geology in remedial investigations, to finding landfill boundaries and other buried unknown problems.

California Utility Goes Underground To Find Some Nice Savings

Peter Masters

February 13, 2015

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Finding utilities buried in the ground so they can be avoided is normally “job one” before any construction project begins.

GSSI Offers Flexible Ground Penetrating Radar to Find Utilities

November 19, 2014

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GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, announces its UtilityScan GPR system.

GPS, maps and landmarks are used to get close to the buried InfraMarker magnetic RFID tag which is found with a magnetic locator.

RFID Helps Map Below the Surface

Linda Duffy

March 1, 2014

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A tremendous amount of effort is focused on collecting data about the Earth’s surface using satellites, airplanes, terrestrial mobile mapping units, total stations and many other devices. Even land areas under water are measurable up to a certain depth. It is reasonable to say that we are at the point where nearly everything above ground is mapped.

Editor's Points: Preconceived Notions

Christine Grahl

January 8, 2013

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My 7-year-old son has a wonderful imagination and is always thinking of new inventions. “I’m going to find a way to capture lightning and turn it into free electricity for people to use,” he said to me the other day.

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