The incorrect and inappropriate use of GPR has over the years caused a great deal of damage to its reputation as a bona fide and reliable technology. The objective of this course on GPR is to make the participants familiar with advanced data acquisition, data processing and interpretation techniques to derive maximum amount of information from data collected. After completing this course, user should be able to collect the GPR data, carry out basic as well as advanced data processing of data and interpret the results in a range of application areas.<h2>Course Approach</h2><ul><li data-list="bullet">Live webinar to deliver the course (day and time of webinar will be suitably chosen so as not to conflict with your working hours). </li><li data-list="bullet">Training Modules (Reading material)</li><li data-list="bullet">Membership of a member’s only Facebook group for interaction within the group members on various aspects of GPR. </li><li data-list="bullet">Email/ online support</li><li data-list="bullet">Certificate from AF Academy on completion of course</li></ul>

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Recorded sessions and training modules delivered via LMS during the course, periodic live interaction for Q&A. Members only Facebook group, email/online support, certificate from AF Academy.

3 MONTH’S ADVANCED ONLINE COURSE ON GROUND PENETRATING RADAR

This will help professionals, engineers and geo-scientists dealing with shallow sub-surface investigation. The program is designed for new as well as experienced users of GPR equipment. The program will also help project owners hiring services of GPR surveys, enabling them understand capabilities and limitations of the method and derive maximum return on their investment on a GPR survey. The program is useful for individuals, organizations and professionals from following fields:<ol><li data-list="ordered">Water, electrical, telecom, gas and other utility companies</li><li data-list="ordered">Construction/ Infrastructure organizations</li><li data-list="ordered">Trenchless companies</li><li data-list="ordered">Environment consultants/ contractors</li><li data-list="ordered">Army, Police, Para-Military forces and other law enforcement/ investigation agencies</li><li data-list="ordered">Concrete inspection agencies/ consultants/ contractors</li><li data-list="ordered">Road inspection authorities, vigilance officials</li><li data-list="ordered">Archaeological survey organizations</li><li data-list="ordered">Geologists, Hydro-geologists, Geophysicists and Civil Engineers</li><li data-list="ordered">Existing GPR users</li><li data-list="ordered">Fresh geophysicists/ engineers planning to pursue career in the field of GPR</li></ol>

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3 day’s Online Course Learn Advanced GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) Data Processing

Dam Safety Course

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The course is meant for the professionals directly engaged in the works of maintaining and managing the irrigation and multipurpose projects having headworks in form of storage structures of various sizes and associated water distribution networks for providing water to the beneficiaries. The course aims at improving the skills of the professional entrusted with the responsibility in directly managing the facilities and ensuring their safety as well as reporting the status to the higher level of managements. The works of such nature requires exposure to the basics of the sciences and technologies that go into designing and operationalizing such facilities, deteriorations that can be expected over long years of usage, implications thereof towards continued safety of operators and hazard levels posed to the downstream communities, possible field and laboratory investigations techniques for identification of problems and reporting the observations to the expert personnel in a scientific and lucid manner so that the status at the field level is fully appreciated while planning the remedial measures by them.The areas of safety assurance in general are very wide and comprise of high degree of expertise and skills extending to the cutting-edge level of technologies and involve a fair amount of in-depth experience in each discipline. However, such level of expertise and skill sets cannot be replicated easily with the growing level of asset base and increasing age of the existing assets. A middle layer is required who is generally aware of the issues that can get generated in such a scenario and how to deal with them as a first line of decision and defense. At the higher levels, such personnel will be the key to the setup to monitor and collate the status of the asset portfolio being managed by an organization or department.Water management projects especially the irrigation projects are long lasting entities with practically indefinite life. Even if the beneficiary land area changes its character in terms of land use, the utility of the head conservation works and the distribution networks remain or improve as they are required to deliver the water for larger economic good in keeping with development in economy of the area. On the other hand, the tenure of a professional employed for managing the project may be limited in keeping with the shortage of personnel and also the aspirations of the individual towards career progression. Many of the developing countries are facing this problem due to a smaller pool of manpower resources not in keeping with the growth in population of the projects. At any point of time, a change of hands is inevitable with concomitant dangers of gaps in knowledge transfer. Presence of exposure to a course of this nature provides necessary awareness to the incoming professional about the scope and nature of the assignment at hand and also makes the charged professionals aware of standard protocols and procedures involved.This is a first course in a set of courses of increasing levels of expertise and narrowing of focus for advanced exposure of relevant sub sets of professionals.The professionals at ICID and Aqua Foundation have witnessed such situations first hand and realize that the skill sets are in need of a wider spread in view of growing importance of an assured delivery of water to the beneficiaries and also a continued assurance of performance worthiness of the components involved.Dam safety bill has already passed in the Lok Sabha and is now pending with Rajya Sabha. It is likely that the same may come into effect shortly. Already, with DRIP II in place, there is a need of trained dam safety professionals at the field level who are able to coordinate with various expert committees and panels who take up the formulation of remedial measures and also supervise implementation of the same. This course will enable the project authorities to create such a group for better progress in their dam safety related works. Similarly, in India, there is increasing emphasis on demand side management for water resources. In such cases, the status of network capacities for delivering the required volumes will also require assurance. Maintenance of networks will therefore receive increasing importance. In this context, the course will be able to fulfil this gap.

The course aims at improving the skills of the professional entrusted with the responsibility in directly managing the facilities and ensuring their safety as well as reporting the status to the higher level of managements.

Certificate Course on Dam and Network Safety Assurance

<h3>Approved by: Engineering Council of India</h3><h3>36 CPD Hours</h3><h4>Introduction</h4>Having accurate knowledge of subsurface/ underground/ buried utilities (pipes/ cables/ drains etc.) is critical for any infrastructure project. The successful detection and mapping of buried utilities involves the combination of several techniques, the results of which are synthesized down to a single interpreted plot. The techniques and methodologies used will primarily depend upon the required outcome for the survey, the site conditions and the type of pipes or cables being targeted.Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) is an upcoming field dealing with procedure and standards for detection and mapping of underground utilities. The workshop comprehensively covers all the aspects related to conducting a successful underground utility detection and mapping project. The workshop also serves as certification program of three levels (trade skill certificate level 1, 2 &amp; 3) leading to certification as ‘SUE Engineer’ with a unique seal to certify utility drawings.Title of SUE Engineer is granted upon acquiring the necessary professional skills in Subsurface Utility Engineering field through SUE Engineer training program. The program comprises of three levels of training and respective level- end tests conducted by IndSTT followed by the certification and grant of SUE Engineer Seal with distinct serial number for each qualified and certified SUE Engineer. SUE Engineer can function in five different roles:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Project Owner’s Engineer/Advisor</li><li data-list="bullet">Service Provider’s Engineer/Advisor</li><li data-list="bullet">Right of Way Owner’s Engineer/Advisor</li><li data-list="bullet">Third Party Consultant</li><li data-list="bullet">Expert Witness</li></ol><h4>Certification Process</h4>There is an acute shortage of qualified professionals to supervise the entire process of subsurface utility engineering. This program is an effort to cater to this need and certify eligible personnel as Subsurface Utility Engineer authorised to stamp and sign final SUE drawings. The process of certification leading to Subsurface Utility Engineer will be as under:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Level-1 Certification: SUE Workshop</li><li data-list="bullet">Level-2 Certification: Advanced Workshop on GPR, EPL and other designation techniques</li><li data-list="bullet">Level-3 Certification: Advanced Workshop on utilities networks, drawings, standards and drawing certification.</li></ol>After completing above 3 levels, one will become eligible to be certified as subsurface utility engineer, and will be issued a numbered stamp also to be used for drawing certification.

Certification program of three trade skill levels leading to certification as ‘SUE Engineer’ with a unique seal to certify utility drawings.

Online Certification Program on Subsurface Utility Engineering - All 3 Levels

India occupies third position globally with 5254 large dams in operation and 447 dams under construction. Over 80% of our existing dams are more than 25 years old and many of them may be experiencing distress and require assessment of their condition for their operational performance and safety. Traditionally, dam operators have relied on visual observations for assessing condition of dams. In complex structures like dams, reliance on physical manifestation of underlying internal structural problems can be catastrophic. Geophysical techniques can be used for assessing condition of these structures in non-destructive manner. These techniques have been used very effectively for all types of dams. Even if the dam is not showing any sign of distress, it is advisable to know the health of the dam internal condition.This course is desiged to train you in non-desctructive techniques for assessing conditions of Dams.

Live interactive sessions during the course, training modules, members only Facebook group, email/online support, certificate from AF Academy.

3 Month’s Online Course on Dam Geophysics

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GPR Training Course

The incorrect and inappropriate use of GPR has over the years caused a great deal of damage to its reputation as a bona fide and reliable technology. The objective of this course on GPR is to make the participants familiar with basic as well advanced data acquisition, data processing and interpretation techniques to derive maximum amount of information from data collected. After completing this course, user should be able to collect the GPR data, carry out basic as well as advanced data processing of data and interpret the results in a range of application areas.The program will enable the participant to derive maximum information from GPR data and help them design the right GPR investigation program for a particular project requirement. It will also enable them to choose the right combination of antennas for varied geological conditions and resolution requirements. The minimum outcome of the workshop will be:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Learn how to determine whether GPR will be suitable for a particular project objective</li><li data-list="bullet">Learn how to design GPR survey to get maximum information</li><li data-list="bullet">Learn how to choose various parameters during data acquisition</li><li data-list="bullet">Learn how to carry out simple in-field processing of data</li><li data-list="bullet">Learn how to carry out advanced processing to minimise noise and extract maximum information from GPR data</li><li data-list="bullet">Learn use and theoretical aspects of various filters, migration, corrections etc.</li><li data-list="bullet">Learn how to carry out 3D processing of data</li><li data-list="bullet">Learn to conduct QC checks on GPR data and results obtained through GPR contractors</li><li data-list="bullet">Application specific training on:</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-indent-1">Utility detection and mapping</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-indent-1">Concrete inspection (voids, delamination, rebar etc.)</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-indent-1">Pavement inspection (thickness of various layers etc.)</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-indent-1">Void detection</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-indent-1">Archaeology</li><li data-list="bullet">Any other topic/ application of interest of participants.</li><li data-list="bullet">Numerous practical tips for effective GPR utilization based on 3 decades of experience.</li></ol>

3 Month’s Online Course on Ground Penetrating Radar

A comprehensive course covering all aspects of subsurface utility engineering including tools like GPR, EPL etc., with detailed description of data processingThis is the only course which takes the learner through basics of SUE, data collection procedures for QL-D and C, detailed procedure for QL-B data collection using Ground Penetrating Radar, Induction Locator, Acoustic Locators etc., QL-A procedures including vacuum excavation, instructions on drawing preparation etc.Here are USP of this course:<ol><li data-list="bullet">Course designed by industry experts having more than 25 years of experience</li><li data-list="bullet">Complete course delivered through videos, along with reading material</li><li data-list="bullet">Detailed training on data processing using live software</li><li data-list="bullet">More than 5 hours of video and more than 700 pages of optional reading material</li><li data-list="bullet">Liberty to complete the course at your own pace- 02 days or 02 years- choice is yours</li><li data-list="bullet">Option of getting further certification from Engineering Council of India</li></ol>

A Comprehensive course covering all aspects of subsurface utility engineering including tools like GPR, EPL ETC., with detailed description of data processing.

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3 MONTH’S ADVANCED ONLINE COURSE ON GROUND PENETRATING RADAR

3 day’s Online Course Learn Advanced GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) Data Processing

Certificate Course on Dam and Network Safety Assurance

Online Certification Program on Subsurface Utility Engineering - All 3 Levels

3 Month’s Online Course on Dam Geophysics

3 Month’s Online Course on Ground Penetrating Radar

Self Study Course in Subsurface Utility Engineering

Level 1 Certificate Course in Subsurface Utility Engineering

Level 3 Certification Program on SUE

Dam Geophysics

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