Imaging Subsuperficial Water In Tropical Soils Using Penetrating Radar

The ground penetration radar has been a very useful tool to assessing stratigraphical features, buried objects and fluids in the shallower portions of the ground. Although this method to be quite spread, nowadays is still scarce the works that approach the aspects related to water mapping in soils formed by strong tropical wheathering conditions. This kind of wheathering forms soils with great amount of clayel material. This fine material also constitutes the commonest part of the sedimentary deposits that recover the landscape. These soils and sediments possess resistives characteristics that allow a good transmission and reflection of the radar waves in the substratum. This work aim to show some study-cases of the visualization by radar reflection. For this, the radargrams generated by radar relection were observed in three sites in the Southeast of Brazil.