SENSORS & SOFTWARE

Ground penetrating radar apparatus; instrumentation, namely, transducers in the nature of radio frequency ultra-wide bandwidth antennas, receivers and transmitters, electronic circuitry, embedded and providing online downloadable post data acquisition imaging software for inspection of concrete, asphalt and other building materials to determine the construction attributes, presence of flaws, location of embedded objects such as wires, conduits, rebar, post tension cables and similar items, and material layer thickness; providing online downloadable signal processing technology system comprising of hardware in the nature of field programmable gate array, system-on-module, analog and digital conversion and digital processors and downloadable software used in ground penetrating radar systems that allows dynamic adjustment of ground penetrating radar sensitivity applied in a wide range of subsurface sensing applications to enhance the measured data by providing dynamic reduction in ambient noise; mobile ground penetrating radar system for three-dimensional imaging, detection, location, and mapping of subsurface structures, consisting of non-metallic wheeled platform for manually transporting ground penetrating geophysical radar sensors and ancillary items over the ground surface, integrated odometer, power supply, control computer, display device in the nature of tablets and custom designed display monitors with embedded processors with real-time subsurface imaging output, subsurface imaging instruments used for subsurface detection, water content determination, material property monitoring, rock mechanics and building structure monitoring and failure detection, cable failure detection, level detection, plus replacement and structural parts therefore, namely, transmitters in the nature of ultra-wideband pulsed radar technology, receivers in the nature of radio frequency ultra-wide bandwidth antenna receivers with signal processing, antennas, transducers in the nature of radio frequency ultra-wide bandwidth, signal processors, signal displays in the nature of tablets and custom designed display monitors with embedded processors with real-time subsurface imaging output, and providing online downloadable signal processing software for data filtering and enhancing and controlling instrument operation; subsurface detecting, delineating and profiling systems and constituent parts thereof, namely, transmitters in the nature of ultra-wideband pulsed radar technology, transducers in the nature of radio frequency ultra-wide bandwidth transmitters and receivers, antennas, signal processors, signal recorders in the nature of high fidelity and high speed analog to digital conversion and signal processing and displays in the nature of tablets and custom designed display monitors with embedded processors with real-time subsurface imaging output, and downloadable computer operating software; equipment used for determining snow depth, thickness, quality or water content, namely, associated downloadable software for determining snow depth, thickness, quality or water content and computer, sold as a unit; spatial positioning technology system used for creating maps of snow depth, thickness, quality or water content, namely, transmitters in the nature of radio frequency ultra-wideband pulsed radar technology, receivers in the nature of radio frequency ultra-wide bandwidth antenna receivers with signal processing, antennas, time reflectometry transducers, signal processors, computers, signal processing devices in the nature of high fidelity and high speed analog to digital conversion, field programmable gate array and system-on-module signal processing, providing online downloadable display software used for displaying maps of snow depth, thickness, quality or water content generated by spatial positioning technology system, and satellite global positioning systems (GPS) inertial and doppler positioning instruments used for navigation; providing online downloadable software used for displaying three-dimensional radar data, sonic acoustic electromagnetic data or any other type of data of similar format in chart form using color or grey level to indicate the third dimension, the data having been acquired by instruments used to map buried objects such as pipes and cables, soil layers, water depth, and audio signal frequency strengths versus time