Ground penetrating radar survey is one method used in archaeological geophysics.
Named Golubkina, the crater was discovered by Soviet spacecraft conducting a radar survey in the early 1980's.
Scientists had hoped to continue the radar survey until 1995, filling in the gaps and searching for terrain changes indicating volcanic and seismic activity.
In 1973 British scientists in Antarctica performed airborne ice-penetrating radar survey and detected a possible lake.
The group is now trying to obtain funding for ground-penetrating radar surveys of the area to locate the graves.
Geologists plan new radar surveys from space to map ruins of long-abandoned caravan stations half buried in desert sands.
Cassini's radar surveys show the landscape to be relatively flat and unscarred by craters.
The radar survey confirmed that both pools were on unstable ground and the repairs had failed.
The first features that showed up in early radar surveys of the planet were given the names of letters of the Greek alphabet.
Ground-penetrating radar surveys have detected the sites of many more dwellings, leading to estimates that 200 to 300 people lived in the village.