oa Success Criteria And Reasons For Failure Of Ground-Penetrating Radar Studies

The literature is replete with examples of successful ground-penetrating radar (GPR)<br>investigations. Documentation of the failures, however, is not as well reported, although<br>cautionary notes are also abundant regarding the misuse and misapplication of the technique.<br>Such deficiencies in reporting are common artifacts in scientific and engineering literature in<br>that interest is generally greater in successful studies, but discussion of the failures is important<br>because it provides an understanding of the limitations of the method. Examination of the<br>types of surveys that have proven to offer a measure of success suggests a number of themes,<br>the most obvious of which is the presence of host materials with low conductivities and a<br>relative lack of mineralogic clays.