GPR technique as a tool for cultural heritage restoration: San Miguel de los Reyes Hieronymite Monastery, 16th century (Valencia, Spain)

A review of Ground Penetrating Radar application in civil engineering: A 30-year journey from Locating and Testing to Imaging and Diagnosis

“…In cases of modern rehabilitation on heritage buildings, relatively modern structural elements are built on to ancient masonry ones. GPR is extremely useful to help study of the interface between the old and the modern parts of structures constructed at different periods of time [35,[45][46][47]. Further GPR can be very powerful in identifying older constructions embedded inside walls or buried under the building structures [35,[48][49][50].…”

“…Natural disasters damage buildings, like earthquakes and landslides. After the disasters, GPR is proved to be a useful tool as part of the solution to support diagnosis in rehabilitation [45,47,55], and the possible causes of visible damage [85]. However, such use is still very limited.…”

Integrated evaluation of the Church of S. Nicola di Mira: Conservation versus safety

“…In [12] laboratory studies were carried out on two masonry specimens to evaluate the existing stresses using the flat-jack method: the stresses obtained from the tests are close to the applied stress with error lesser than 15%. The capability of a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey as a non-destructive tool in supporting the structural calculations for restoration and conservation is dealt with in [13,14].…”

Three‐dimensional ground‐penetrating radar strategies over an indoor archaeological site: Convent of Santo Domingo (Lugo, Spain)

“…Microgravity measurements combined with GPR have also been successfully applied (Paŝteka et al ., 2007). The results of these surveys have dealt mostly with two‐dimensional results, but some pseudo‐three‐dimensional information has been extracted (García et al , 2007). The use of ultradense three‐dimensional GPR data acquisition permits not only finding subfloor features but also obtaining accurate reconstructions of them, which facilitates interpretation.…”