TABLE OF CONTENTS This Chapter describes some of the geophysical applications of ground penetrating radar (GPR). There is now a wealth of information on the probing of rocks, soils, snow and ice, and the contributors to the second edition have concentrated on two specific applications, namely frozen materials and borehole radar. The reader should not infer that probing of rocks and soils has not been a major activity over the last decade, and papers by Peters et al. [1], Pettinelli et al. [2], and Sato and Lu [3] are typical examples of the variety of studies and applications of GPR to geophysical applications. The author felt that there was sufficient information in the various conference proceedings, referred to in the introductory chapters, on conventional GPR probing of rocks and soils, and it would be useful to emphasise the more specialised applications of GPR in terms of geophysical probing. Thus, the material of the first edition has been retained, but the contributions to the second edition have emphasised those particular aspects of GPR. For those readers wishing to research the broad range of GPR studies related to stratigraphic analyses, the following organisations have regular conferences and publications. The Geological Society of America (GSA) at http://www.geosociety.org/ and the Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG) at http://www.seg.org/ will be valuable sources of information.
As an example, a conference of the GSA in November 2003 at Seattle, USA (Advances in stratigraphic analyses using ground penetrating radar) considered the following topics:
hydrocarbon reservoir characterisation, whether...
