Will the scanning equipment or radar carts leave any ruts, tread marks, or permanent damage on the delicate cemetery turf?
Sentry Mapping’s ground penetrating radar cemetery surveys use a light, walk-behind GPR cart that rolls over the grass. Because the work is non-invasive and requires no digging, it typically leaves no ruts, tread marks, or permanent damage. On very soft, wet turf, faint temporary tracks can occur
With Sentry Mapping, cemetery mapping is designed to protect delicate grounds. Our process is non-invasive: technicians roll a high-frequency GPR cart across each walkway and row to capture subsurface reflections for unmarked grave detection and burial plot mapping, without digging, trenching, or cutting turf.
In normal conditions, you should not see ruts, tread marks, or lasting turf damage. The cart simply rolls across the surface while the radar reads what is below, so the soil and grass are left undisturbed. If your cemetery turf is saturated, freshly graded, or otherwise fragile, we can adjust the field plan with you (for example, work a different section first or return after the ground firms up) to keep the surface looking clean.
This low-impact approach is part of our Cemetery Survey & Drafting and Grave Locating services, and it feeds directly into digital cemetery mapping and cemetery GIS mapping deliverables. You receive a printed master map and a searchable web map. If you want ongoing record control, you can also manage the map in our optional cemetery management software.