The Orfeus Project (Optimised Radar for Finding Every Utility in the Street)

The ORFEUS (Optimised Radar for Finding Every Utility in the Street) project addresses the requirement for advanced technologies for locating, maintaining and rehabilitating buried infrastructures and, in particular, it fulfils the requirement for locating buried assets, including the use of trenchless techniques for deploying pipes and cables in an urban environment. The aim of this project is to develop two radars. The first operates on the surface for planning deployment activities; the second (a bore-head GPR) will be installed in the drilling head of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) equipment so that they may avoid collision and possible damage to existing cables and other infrastructure.