Project description DEENESFRITPL Using broadband antennae for subsurface imaging Public infrastructure supports economic activity. It is the basic framework for delivering energy, transport, water, sanitation and telecoms. However, European Investment Bank (EIB) estimates suggest that economic infrastructure investment needs are as high as EUR 688 billion per year. Forming the basis of Europe’s infrastructure development is ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology. In fact, this non-invasive geophysical method, which uses radar pulses to image the subsurface, is essential for infrastructure applications across multiple industries. It is applied to examine everything from building walls to roads and railways. The EU-funded SGPR project is developing a next-generation frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) surface radar with a broadband antenna. This will enable it to conduct the analysis in the field of frequency and not time, which is useful in distinguishing materials. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The European Union (EU-28) investment in infrastructure has been declining since 2009. This has given rise the emergenceof an infrastructure investment gap with implications for the EU's economic recovery and competitiveness that aresignificant. The European Investment Bank estimates Europe’s hard infrastructure investment gap for energy, transport,water and sanitation, and telecom sectors at €688 billion per year.Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology is an integral to European infrastructure development. GPR is a non-invasivegeophysical method that uses radar pulses to image and study the sub-surface picture of what is below the surface of theground for infrastructure applications across multiple industries. However, state-of-the-art (SoA) GPR technologies sufferfrom a significant problem of lack or insufficient data regarding the sub-surface material composition and sub-surface layersand bodies. GPR technology is also expensive and difficult to use.SGPR.TECH proposes a next-generation surface radar, which will become the basis of many solutions dedicated to variousindustries. Unlike the current impulse GPR radar, the SGPR.TECH team wants to use FMCW (Frequency-ModulatedContinuous Wave) radar with a broadband antenna that will conduct the analysis in the field of frequency, not time, allowingus to obtain imaging with the possibility of distinguishing materials, thanks to their different properties of electricalpermeability in the frequency function. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradar Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Topic(s) EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument Call for proposal H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1 Funding Scheme SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1 Coordinator WIDMO SPECTRAL TECHNOLOGIES SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA Net EU contribution € 50 000,00 Address Ul. czarnowiejska 36 30-054 Krakow Poland See on map Region Makroregion południowy Małopolskie Miasto Kraków Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 21 429,00
