Application of Ground Penetrating Radar for River Ice Surveys

explore the feasibility of ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology for river ice survey work. The goal of the pilot project was to evaluate the potential for this technology to acquire spatial information on bed and bottom of ice location under the range of working conditions presented at the study location. Also, the capacity for GPR technology to delineate the location of the water’s edge was assessed – a particularly challenging task using conventional manual survey measurement methods. For a comparable level of effort, a significant increase in total areal coverage of both ice thickness and bed profile information is expected with the applicatio