March 2023
New Tech at CONEXPO 2023
This allows an excavator operator to scan the dirt for buried utilities by simply floating the back face of the bucket above the ground in front of the machine.
It’s not about getting a perfect underground image, but knowing if something is there at all, explains Yuval Barnea, vice president for sales and marketing at Rod Radar. “We have developed a unique ground-penetrating radar which instead of looking deep and paying for accuracy, we look for the next bite—we look shallow.” The GPR can see roughly 3 ft down, and will give the operator an alarm message if a possible buried utility is detected.
It’s not about getting a perfect underground image, but knowing if something is there at all, explains Yuval Barnea, vice president for sales and marketing at Rod Radar. “We have developed a unique ground-penetrating radar which instead of looking deep and paying for accuracy, we look for the next bite—we look shallow.” The GPR can see roughly 3 ft down, and will give the operator an alarm message if a possible buried utility is detected.