GPR can be used in designing buildings, roads, airports, oil and gas pipelines requires comprehensive study the geological structure of the ground and rocks in the area for construction. Using of geophysical methods for exploration for construction, especially in complex engineering geological conditions of the construction site, provides additional information about the structure of the ground and improves the quality of project solutions. GPR replaced the X-ray in flaw detection of large constructions because of potential damage, high price, time consuming and limitations of X-ray flaw detection. Non-destructive testing, evaluation of the situation and monitoring of pavement, platforms, foundations, plates, supporting and bearing constructions and others structures.
GPR can also be used in non-destructive locating, determination of the depth and mapping of cracks, collapses, cavities and other defects in the foundation and pavement of roads, runways, railway lines and other transportation construction,as well as the determination of the depth and mapping of underground caverns and groundwater flow carbonate rocks, and in other conditions. The use of the method of subsurface radar sounding - also called GPR - in engineering geology explorations increased dramatically in the practice of over the past decade. Unlike the traditional geophysical methods - electric resistivity survey, seismic survey, etc., a GPR survey allows extremely high resolution along the trace and in depth, highly-detailed surveys, along with possibility to obtain information about the structure of the studied section and visualization of results during the measurement. All this is resulting in high performance of the GPR exploration. Conductive contamination of groundwater strongly absorb signal of GPR, and therefore it is an effective tool for mapping the distribution of many types of contaminants. This paper provides a number of examples.
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