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A study is continuing to establish the usefulness of geophysics as a rapid site assessment tool. A number of service stations in the built-up environment have been surveyed to assess the extent of sub-surface hydrocarbon contamination and features that may provide a pathway for contaminant migration from sources to receptors. The results, which have been processed both by traditional means and a newly developed software tool RADPRO™, are in substantial agreement with standard site survey techniques. The applicability of geophysics in a dense urban environment is seen as an important contribution to rapid site assessment methods, and the success of the new software tool will considerably speed up and increase the usefulness of GPR in practical situations.
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V. T. Nguyen et al., 1997, An Evaluation of Geophysical Techniques to Measure Sub-Surface Hydrocarbon Contamination at a Disused Fuel Distribution Depot, EEGS, SAGEEP ’97, p. 252–260
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Leonard, D.W. et al. (1997). Hydrocarbon Contamination and Features Mapping Using GPR. In: Gottlieb, J., Hötzl, H., Huck, K., Niessner, R. (eds) Field Screening Europe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1473-5_29
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