Editorial and Preface

Abstract

Welcome to Issue 1, Volume 2 of Ground Penetrating Radar, the first peer-refereed, open-access, international academic journal designed to advance scientific knowledge and foster innovative engineering solutions in the field of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). This issue includes four papers (see the Preface for an introduction to the papers), a Retraction Note, and a 'News & Announcements' section. We are delighted to inform our Readers and Authors that we have recently joined Crossref, this will guarantee higher discoverability and visibility of Ground Penetrating Radar papers to the research community. Crossref was founded in 2000 by a group of publishers who needed an efficient method to connect their journal articles, and so they started using DOIs to link references between articles. When an article is registered with Crossref, the bibliographic metadata of that article are submitted, such as the title, authors, publication dates, online location, the DOI, and the references, to name a few. This makes it easier, e.g., for a Reader to locate all items registered in Crossref citing a certain article. Not only new Ground Penetrating Radar papers, but also papers published on Ground Penetrating Radar in 2018 are going to be registered in CrossRef! Moreover, we have updated the journal website and each published paper now has a dedicated webpage. We are also pleased to inform you that two Special Issues are being launched: • The last issue of Volume 2 (to be published in December 2019) will be a collection of scientific papers resuming contributions presented during Session GI4.