GPR Week

This week was about technology. GPR EMI and such. Ground Penetrating Radar and Electromagnetic Induction. Great fun . Some people think it's way too much work for the results, but after a week of working with it, I can see the places where it won't work and other places where it will be a time saver in the long run. As with the Digital Soil Mapping technology, it requires a reasonably good model of the landscape already in place to work well. Ground truthing (aka digging holes) is still a requirement, but when it comes to transects to verify and document our landscape models, these tools can help out with maybe a couple of pits dug instead of 10. Yeah. I can go for that, especially in this landscape where the soils are like serious cement from about April through February, assuming we get a rain or two over the winter.

It was a good week, a break from regular mapping, and a chance to do something a bit different. Photos of the rest of it are on the Picasa site. The horses were especially entertaining as they tried to help. One especially pretty black boy was sure that my NRCS lunch bag was made especially for him, looked just like a grain feed bag. I cut up my apple and gave it to him, and I am sure in this dry crackly landscape it was pretty nice. Another day another dollar.