Underground Services Locating

Precise Underground Services and Assets Detection Australia-Wide

The location of underground assets is vital for a project to ensure either the design, construction, or maintenance of a site can be carried out safely without being subject to either immediate or subsequent damage of utilities. The penetration of a cable or piping can be a costly exercise for project management and result in completion delays as well as expensive repair and potential insurance costs. VAC Group, utilising the experienced technicians in our Earth Radar team, can carry out comprehensive utility service locating and mapping across a range of sites and our vacuum excavation trucks where necessary can provide additional exploratory potholing to ensure you get a complete picture of the subsurface landscape.

Ground Penetrating Radar Technology

Our world-class range of Australian designed ground penetrating radar technologies are the ideal way to carry out underground utility location on all manner of sites.

Developed by Earth Radar, Latro is a push-cart 3D ground penetrating radar (3D GPR) system, able to provide scans with survey grade accuracy across site areas, road corridors, footpaths, and pavements. Unlike other ground penetrating radar systems on the market, Latro’s scanner is multi-directional meaning it can provide complete, detailed data from a single area sweep. Find out more about Latro here.

Trailer mounted and able to produce subsurface data at speeds of up to 80 kilometres per hour, the larger Sparas 3D GPR system is capable of scanning roadways, airport pavement, and other large, paved areas in a short amount of time. Both of our trademarked systems employ a sophisticated Noise Modulated GPR approach to provide enhanced collection speed, penetration depth, and data quality when compared to other conventional market technologies. Find out more about Sparas here.