Geo Doctor™

Roadscanners designs and markets Geo Doctor™ software for environmental, site investigation and geological applications. Geo Doctor™ software uses the same project based system as all of the Road Doctor™ versions, so changing to a different software version does not cause any practical problems, for example, in data handling. The software includes all of the same analysis and interpretation parameters as Road Doctor™ GPR apart from air-coupled data handling and interpretation.

The software provides tools for:

• ground penetrating radar data processing and interpretation
• linking ground-penetrating radar data and presenting it with other data from the site, such as reference data, maps or digital video.
• analysis of the results, with the help of integrated data views from the various types of data linked into the project

The following data can be linked to a Geo Doctor™ project:

• ground penetrating radar (e.g. GSSI, 3d-Radar, IDS, MALÅ, Sensors & Software, Utsi)
• reference data (e.g. sample cores)
• digital video, photos, and maps
• databases, tables, MS Excel, MySQL, dBase, Oracle, MS Access, Paradox

Ground Penetrating Radar Data Handling

The software is designed for handling ground-coupled ground-penetrating radar data. Air-coupled ground-penetrating radar data can be handled, but only in the same way as ground-coupled data.  Pre-processing operations common to ground-coupled GPR data are cutting, joining, reversing, normalization of horizontal scale and channel splitting.

Geo Doctor™ also enables on-screen data processing without pre-processing the files. This makes data handling faster and saves disk space. Possible operations are for example: background removal, DC-level correction, signal gain, horizontal and vertical filtering, Kirchoff migration, Hilbert transform, correlation filters and arithmetic operations.

The software includes effective tools for large ground penetrating radar data files as well. Interpretations are most reliable in an integrated view, linked together with reference data, video, map and other possible information. Interpretation tools include manual and automatic interface tracking, selection of the interpretation color and line type (according to the certainty of the interpretation) and the addition of labels to the profile. Interpretations can be printed using pre-defined or user defined formats.

External Map and Printing

All data in the software can be exported with coordinate and/or position information. The possible output formats are suitable for use in other software such as CAD programs, ArcGIS, MapInfo, etc. The software itself also has an effective tool for making maps of interest directly from various types of open datasets. Still images can be created from large files such as video and GPR data to save disk space. These still images and all other linked data can be viewed by the client with the free Road Doctor™ Viewer software. Views can be created and saved ready for the client to open, saving time and allowing the most relevant information and results of the project to be immediately focused on.