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Vol. 20, No. 2 Week of January 11, 2015
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Using radar to detect oil in ice and snow

Ground penetrating radar has emerged as a valuable tool in locating spilled oil in Arctic onshore and offshore conditions

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

In recent years the use of portable radar equipment, referred to as ground penetrating radar, has become a valuable technique for detecting oil that has been spilled in or under ice and snow in Arctic regions. And at the Dec. 18 meeting of the Alaska Geological Society, Esther Babcock, a geoscientis....

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Reflected radio waves

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