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Army Seeks Industry Info On State-of-The-Art Ground Penetrating Radar

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Thursday, December 15th, 2011

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The Army is conducting market research to find out the state- of- the-art on ground penetrating radar (GPR) that could potentially be used in the service's next generation handheld landmine/explosive hazard detector. The sensor the Army is considering would be expected to detect targets buried from 0-30 cm from distances as far as 7.5 cm above the ground, the survey, released Dec. 5 on FBODaily.com said. The service envisions the technology would be attached to an easily portable handheld wand…

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