Subsurface Imaging Systems Inc. shares a unique technological and marketing
partnership with ERA Technology LTD. of Leatherhead, Surrey, England.
ERA was at the forefront of subsurface imaging/detection durinf World
War 2. The initial challenge was to tackle the menace of time-delayed
bombs and the slow and dangerous process of locating them through the
rubble and in the ground. ERA Technology's highly successful solution
was a specially developed mumetal magnetometer locator. The device could
locate 250 kg bombs at 15 ft. below the surface and 1000 kg bombs to
20 ft. A subsequent IEEE technical paper shared the innovation with
the scientific community.
Surface penetrating radar had it's first serious commercial origins
at the height of the Falklands Conflict in 1982. A new type of ordnance
encountered there, plastic land mines, left the British military with
a dilemma. There was no technology readily available to locate these
mines. The British Ministry of Defense once again turned to ERA Technology.
During the latter part of 1982, ERA's answer, the first SPR, was unveiled
and it quickly proved itself as the solution to the plastic land mine
problem. The first SPR was a cumbersome affair, with an antenna suspended
above the surface on a track mounted vehicle. From this beginning, SPR
became available under government contract to military branches for
the purpose of locating ordnance and weapons caches. Once SPR reached
the private sector, it received a number of improvements, making it
a user-friendly technology that is accessible to the masses.
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