alanw
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Following on from the discussion on "Detection of caves by seismic analysis", here's a UK company having won an award for their work with Network Rail in detecting overhead voids: blanked off shafts by detection of the muon count rate.
https://www.geoptic.co.uk/news-1/geoptic-wins-business-start-up-award
https://www.geoptic.co.uk/news-1/our-ground-engineering-article-is-out
I see there was a previous mention of muons here: https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23074.msg291136#msg291136
Chris Densham, who had some interesting ideas about using muons to see what could be seen above his dig
I stumbled across this whilst investigating a headline in New Scientist that the same company had received funding to investigate the use of muons as an alternative to GPS in polar regions.
I don't subscribe anymore, since their reporting became less scientifically rigorous, they sold out to a new owner and put their price up by a ridiculous amount, but I'd be really interested in how they claim to be able to achieve this.
https://www.geoptic.co.uk/news-1/geoptic-wins-business-start-up-award
https://www.geoptic.co.uk/news-1/our-ground-engineering-article-is-out
I see there was a previous mention of muons here: https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23074.msg291136#msg291136
Chris Densham, who had some interesting ideas about using muons to see what could be seen above his dig
I stumbled across this whilst investigating a headline in New Scientist that the same company had received funding to investigate the use of muons as an alternative to GPS in polar regions.
I don't subscribe anymore, since their reporting became less scientifically rigorous, they sold out to a new owner and put their price up by a ridiculous amount, but I'd be really interested in how they claim to be able to achieve this.