FieldHawk ...

A major water company asked Adien to trace some 600mm plastic pipes across open country recently. After considering the project with our holding company PipeHawk plc, we decided that a joint approach with PipeHawk was the best way of meeting our client’s needs. PipeHawk are world experts at research and development in radar and were able to mobilise their team onto it at short notice. And so was born “FieldHawk”.

In the words of Mark Hennon, Production and Customer Support Manager at PipeHawk plc FieldHawk is “a Low Frequency antenna, specifically designed and tuned to find large diameter pipes buried "deep". By deep, we mean in excess of the normal PipeHawk penetration of say 3 metres. As an analogy, take the old fashioned 405 line TV, the aerial was a large H or X, whereas the modern 625 line TV aerial is very small. This is all to do with frequency. The old TV was VHF (very high frequency) whereas today it is UHF (ultra high frequency). The lower the frequency the larger the aerial. It is the same with GPR, so hence it is over 2 metres long”.

So there you have it. FieldHawk continues to be tested, and it is a good example of the unique relationship that we have with PipeHawk plc for the benefit of our clients.