Alexander Peter Annan is an engineer whose research focuses on near-surface geophysics. He has made significant contributions to the development of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology.[1] Annan is the CEO of Sensors & Software, a company he founded to commercialize GPR technology. He has been working on the development of GPR since the 1970s and was one of the lead researchers on the surface electrical properties experiment conducted on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission.[2]
When the Waterloo Centre for Groundwater Research was founded at the University of Waterloo in 1987, Annan joined the centre as a part-time researcher and adjunct professor.[4][8] Annan commercialized GPR systems by later forming Sensors & Software, a supplier of equipment for underground or subsurface surveying.[1] He serves as CEO of Sensors & Software based in Mississauga, Ontario.[4]
Annan has been a member of Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) since 1969[2] and has received the SEG's Cecil Green Enterprise Award.[1] At SEG, he served as chair of the Mining Committee, president of the Near-Surface Geophysics Section (NSGS), which he founded, and as editor of NSGS's newsletter Near Surface Views. In 1996, SEG awarded him the Hal Mooney Award for “scientific and technical excellence and innovation" in near-surface geophysics.[2] He also served as second vice-president, and director-at-large for SEG.[1] Annan is also a member of the Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society and lectured about near-surface geophysics in the society's KEGS Special Lecture program in 2015.[9]
Topp, G. C.; Davis, J. L.; Annan, A. P. (1980). "Electromagnetic determination of soil water content: Measurements in coaxial transmission lines". Water Resources Research. 16 (3): 574–582. Bibcode:1980WRR....16..574T. doi:10.1029/WR016i003p00574. ISSN1944-7973.
Annan, A. P.; Cosway, S. W. (January 1, 1992). "Ground Penetrating Radar Survey Design". Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems 1992. Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems Proceedings. Environment and Engineering Geophysical Society: 329–351. doi:10.4133/1.2921946.
Annan, A. P. (January 1, 2005). "Ground-Penetrating Radar". Near-Surface Geophysics. Investigations in Geophysics. Society of Exploration Geophysicists. pp. 357–438. doi:10.1190/1.9781560801719.ch11. ISBN978-1-56080-130-6.
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