Patent ID: 7167124

Claim:
A ground penetrating radar measurement system for measuring ground penetrating radar (GPR) data, the measurement system comprising: a) a control unit for controlling the operation of the measurement system; b) a sampling coordination unit connected to the control unit for controlling the timing of generation of stimulus electromagnetic waves and spatial sampling rate of reflected electromagnetic waves in response to the stimulus electromagnetic waves, the sampling coordination unit being adapted to adjust the timing of the generation of the stimulus electromagnetic waves and the sampling rate of the reflected electromagnetic waves for spatially over-sampling the ground penetrating radar data with respect to a minimum Nyquist spatial sampling interval; c) transmission circuitry connected to the control unit and the sampling coordination unit, the transmission circuitry generates the stimulus electromagnetic waves; d) receiving circuitry connected to the control unit and the sampling coordination unit, the receiving circuitry senses and records the reflected electromagnetic waves; and e) a motion detection module connected to one of the sampling coordination unit and the control unit for providing speed and position information of the measurement system, wherein the sampling coordination unit adjusts the amount of spatial over-sampling according to the speed of the measurement system.