SPH Engineering Radar Systems Zond Aero LF

Extra-lightweight GPR system, suitable for medium-sized drones like DJI M300/M350 RTK.

Zond Aero LF is extremely customizable GPR system in terms of available frequencies, it was tested with antennas in the range 50-400MHz making it most versatile system in our portfolio

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Beskrivelse

 

Extra-lightweight GPR system, suitable for medium-sized drones like DJI M300/M350 RTK.

Zond Aero LF is extremely customizable GPR system in terms of available frequencies, it was tested with antennas in the range 50…400MHz making it most versatile system in our portfolio. By default, it comes with 3x sets of dipoles for the 300, 150, and 100 MHz. Dipoles for other frequencies are available by request OR you can even cut supplied dipoles to get required center frequency for your GPR!

Utilizes Real Time Sampling (RTS) with high hardware stacking, delivering high-resolution low-noise data.

Includes a transportation box and mountings for the DJI M300/M350 RTK drone. Mounts for other types of drones are available upon request.

Please note that additional components and software must be ordered to use this GPR with drones. It is recommended to order a complete set. Please ask for the quote.

 

Applications

The Zond Aero LF (Low Frequency) Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system is designed for deep subsurface investigations, especially in geophysical, archaeological, and engineering applications. Its low-frequency antenna allows for greater penetration depth, though with lower resolution compared to high-frequency systems.

 

Technical Specifications

Type

  • Single channel Ground Penetrating Radar system with unshielded dipole antenna

Central Frequency

  • 100, 150, 300 MHz depending on used antenna
    Custom frequencies by request (any frequency 50…400 MHz)

Operating Bandwidth

  • 50 – 200, 75 – 300, 150 – 600  MHz (-12 dB)

Sampling

  • Real Time Sampling (RTS) with high hardware stacking

Samples per scan

  • selectable
    256 / 512 / 1024 / 2048 / 4096 / 8192

Sample rate

  • up to 1,280,000 samples/second (depends on hardware stacking)

Scan rate

  • up to 2,500 scans/s (depends on hardware stacking)

Sample output

  • 32 bit digital raw data

Time range per sample

  • selectable
    18 ps / 36 ps / 71 ps / 89 ps / 125 ps / 143 ps /
    179 ps / 250 ps / 357 ps / 500 ps / 625 ps / 714 ps /
    1 ns / 1.25 ns / 2.5 ns

Depth

  • up to 12 meters in soil with relative dielectric permittivity equal to 5 and specific attenuation up to 5 dB/m

Data

  • Standard Geophysical SEGY Data Format (.sgy) with traces geotagging

 

Environmental

Temperature

  • -20°C to 60°C internal temperature

Humidity

  • 96% non-condensing

Ingress Protection

  • IP68 in a protective box (used for transportation)
  • IP52 in airborne variant

 

Mechanical

Size (L x W x H)

  • GPR controller: 23 x 25 x 5.5 cm

Dipoles length:

  • 100 MHz: 0.75m
  • 150 MHz: 0.5m
  • 300 MHz: 0.25m

Weigh

  • 0.8 kg – GPR controller with mountings for the drone
  • 0.1 kg – 300MHz antenna
  • 0.2 kg – 150MHz antenna
  • 0.4 kg – 100MHz antenna

 

Battery

Airborne variant

Drone main battery is used to provide power to the GPR

Ground surveys

One of the ground survey kits can be used for terrestrial surveys:

 

What’s in the Kit
  • Zond Aero LF GPR system with 100, 150, 300 MHz center frequency antennas
  • Prism 2 Data Acquisition/Processing software
  • Transport case for GPR controller
  • Tube for antennas
  • Mounting kit to fix GPR system on the DJI M300/M350 RTK drone

Size (L x W x H)

  • Package with GPR: 21 x 51 x 43 cm
  • Package with antenna dipoles: 8 x 8 x 76 cm

Weight

  • Package with GPR: 5.6 kg
  • Package with antenna dipoles: 1.1 kg

HS Code

  • HS Code: 90158020 (meteorological, hydrological, geophysical instrument)