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Editorial

Welcome to Issue 1, Volume 1 of Ground Penetrating Radar, the first peer-reviewed
scientific journal dedicated to Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology,
methodology and applications! Founded in September 2017 as a follow-up initiative
of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action TU1208 “Civil
engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar,” this is an open-access openscience
journal, published quarterly. Our website is www.GPRadar.eu/journal,

TU1208 open database of radargrams. the dataset of the IFSTTAR geophysical test site

This paper aims to present a wide dataset of ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles recorded on a full-size geophysical test site, in Nantes (France). The geophysical test site was conceived to reproduce objects and obstacles commonly met in the urban subsurface, in a completely controlled environment; since the design phase, the site was especially adapted to the context of radar-based techniques. After a detailed description of the test site and its building process, the GPR profiles included in the dataset are presented and commented on.

SPOT-GPR analysis of ground penetrating radar signals recorded over the gneiss 14/20 region of the IFSTTAR geophysical test site: Preliminary results

SPOT-GPR stands for 'Sub-array Processing Open Tool for GPR applications' and is a MATLAB-based software that can semi-automatically find and localize ('spot') targets in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data. It implements a sub-array processing method, which combines smart-antenna and radar algorithms. In this paper, SPOT-GPR is used to analyse real GPR signals taken from the Open Database of Radargrams of COST Action TU1208.