Detection of Illegal Dump Deposit with GPR: Case Study

Abstract

An illegal dumping site located in Ping-Tung County, Taiwan was selected as the case study site. For the site remediation and decision-making purposes, illegal waste dumps need to be identified before the application of remedial tasks. However, traditional investigation via soil gas/soil sampling is not able to detect buried wastes or containers in a cost-effective and time-efficient way. In this study, a ground-pentrating radar (GPR) system was utilized to locate the buried wastes under a central frequency operation of