12 Proprietary software

Proprietary software and other applications

Overview of different GPR softwares

Reflex W, GSSI’ RADAN, Sensors & Software‘s Ekko_project, GPR-SLICE, Surfer, and Archaeofusion software, Radar Studio and implementations for GPS and 3D, Impulse Radar-Condor,GPRcad, Road Doctor, MALA, Geomatrix Earth Science Ltd, and many more.

In general, not all software programs are all inclusive-or one can do it all. Especially regarding 3D applications, the companies often tend advertise third party software. Taking survey data, adding GPS and processing time slices (2.5D) information may also be outsourced in software extensions or third parties.

The differences in software mean in reverse that the data file formats are varying also along each GPR system.

GPR software

New data - everything is the same?

  • check meta data or description file which type on data you are working with

  • read in and plot data, check type and information lying within the data e.g. is this a 400MHz data as labeled or a 600MHz or something different?

  • check the GPS info if applicable

  • re-label or sort your lines if necessary e.g. normal lines and speed measurements

  • file size! strong enough working environment?

Examples:

Little peak inside an example of proprietary software:

EKKO_project

Inside view of an example file at start of the program:

GPR software

Detail on setting the filters on a single line:

line_view

Operating slice view:

slice_view