Action TU1208 

Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar

COST Success Story

In this page you can find a list of Special Sessions and Workshops organized by the COST Action TU1208 within international conferences, with links to dedicated webpages.

Do not forget to check out the right column of this page, where you can find  information about upcoming special sessions!

The Action has also organized several Special Sessions and Workshops in International Conferences, Training Schools,  and the GPR Road Show. 


TU1208 Sessions in International Conferences


From the most recent to the oldest:


12)  Special Session "Inverse Scattering Techniques for GPR and Subsurface Imaging"

2017  International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES), Florence, Italy, 26 - 30 March 2017

Conveners: Lorenzo Poli (IT), Marco Salucci (IT), and Lara Pajewski (IT)

- 7 oral contributions

- conference attended by around 1000 scientists


11)  Session GI3.1 "Civil engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar"

2017 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,     17 - 22 April 2017

Convener:   Lara Pajewski (IT)  | Co-Conveners: Andrea Benedetto (IT), Andreas Loizos (EL), and Fabio Tosti (IT)

- 12 oral contributions and   23 poster contributions presented during our session

- conference attended by 13650 scientists from 109 countries


10)  Session GI3.1 "Civil engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar"

2016 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,     17 - 22 April 2017

Convener:   Lara Pajewski (IT)  | Co-Conveners: Andrea Benedetto (IT), Andreas Loizos (EL), and Fabio Tosti (UK)

- 12 oral contributions and   17 poster contributions presented during our session

- conference attended by 13650 scientists from 109 countries


9) Scientific session on "Ground Penetrating Radar"

2016 European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Davos, Switzerland,   11 - 15 April 2016

- Convener: Lara Pajewski (IT)

- conference attended by about 1100 participants

- during 2016 EuCAP, the Action TU1208 organised also a workshop on "Electromagnetic modelling and inversion techniques for GPR" and was exhibited in the COST booth, along with the Actions IC1102 and TD1301


8) Scientific session on "Ground Penetrating Radar"

 45th  European Microwave Week (EuMW 2015) - 14th European Radar Conference (EuRAD),  Paris, France, 6-11 September 2015

- Conveners: Cedric Le Bastard (FR) and Lara Pajewski (IT)

- conference attended by more than 1000 participants


7) Session SPM1.24 "Ground Penetrating Radar technology and methodology"

2015 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 12 - 17 April 2015

- Convener: Lara Pajewski (IT)


6)  Session GI3.1 "Civil engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar"

2015 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,     12 - 17 April 2015

- Convener:   Andrea Benedetto (IT)  | Co-Conveners: Lara Pajewski (IT), Andreas Loizos (EL), and Fabio Tosti (UK)

- 12 oral contributions and    16 poster contributions presented during our session

- conference attended by 11837 scientists from 108 countries


5)  Session SPM2.25 "Application of Ground Penetrating Radar, in association with other NDT technologies, to archaeological prospecting, localization of buried and trapped people, civil engineering/geological/geotechnical tasks, management and protection of water resources"

2014 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,   27 April – 2 May 2014

- Convener:   Lara Pajewski (IT)


4)  Session SPM2.24 "EM methods for near-field scattering problems by buried structures; data processing techniques"

2014 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,   27 April – 2 May 2014

- Convener:   Lara Pajewski (IT)


3) Session   SPM2.23 "GPR surveying of pavements, bridges, tunnels and buildings; underground utility and void sensing"

2014 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,   27 April – 2 May 2014

- Convener:   Lara Pajewski (IT)


2)  Session SPM2.22 "Novel GPR instrumentation"

2014 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,   27 April – 2 May 2014

- Convener:   Lara Pajewski (IT)


1) Session GI3.1 "Civil engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar"

2014 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria,   27 April – 2 May 2014

- Convener:   Lara Pajewski (IT)  | Co-Conveners: Andrea Benedetto (IT), Andreas Loizos (EL), and Fabio Tosti (IT)

- 18 oral contributions and   29 poster contributions presented during our session

- conference attended by 12437 scientists from 106 countries



TU1208 International Workshops


2) Workshop in 2016 European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP, Davos, CH):  "Electromagnetic modelling and inversion techniques for GPR". Chair and Organizer: Lara Pajewski (IT); Speakers: Lara Pajewski (IT), Craig Warren (UK) and Andrea Randazzo (IT).


1) 2014 Workshop on "Electromagnetic modelling with the Finite-Difference Time-Domain technique" (Nantes, FR), attended by 33 participants. Chair: Lara Pajewski (IT); Local Organiser: Xavier Derobert (FR); Speakers: Antonis Giannopoulos (UK) and Craig Warren (UK).





Latest Conference

Final Conference of the COST Action TU1208


National Institute of Telecommunications of Poland, 25-27 September 2017,

Warsaw, Poland



    Latest Sessions


23-25 October 2017, Lecce, Italy

A unique opportunity for TU1208 Members, to present their activities and the Action's outcomes in the field of cultural heritage.


GI3.1 Session "Civil engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar"

8-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria

A great networking opportunity for TU1208 Members to meet and share ideas, 6 months after the end of the Action.


For information concerning COST Action TU1208 and TU1208 GPR Association, please take contact with the Chair of the Action and President of the Association, Prof. Lara Pajewski. From 4 April 2013 to 3 October 2017, this website was supported by COST, European Cooperation in Science and Technology - COST is supported by the EU RTD Framework Programme Horizon2020. TU1208 Members are deeply grateful to COST for funding and supporting COST Action TU1208. As of 4 October 2017, this website is supported by TU1208 GPR Association, a non-profit association stemming from COST Action TU1208.


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