New Perspectives in Buried Utility Detection and Mapping with a Multi-Scan GPR System

B035 Z-99 New perspectives in buried utility detection and mapping with a multi-scan GPR system Summary 1 ROBERTO FRANCESE 1 AND GIANFRANCO MORELLI 2 1 Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale OGS – Sgonico (Trieste) Italy Underground utility detection and mapping is a relevant issue to the social community as regard to management cost-effectiveness and quality of the provided services. The rapid urban development started in the early sixties and the progressive adjustment of the adduction networks caused a rapid and chaotic growth of the buried infrastructures. The need of a reliable cartography of the shallow subsurface became