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... 80C H A P T E R 8 ConclusionsUtility Locating Technologies At present, there is no prospect that a tool will be developed in the foreseeable future that can simply and quickly locate and characterize all of the buried utilities at a site. In truth, there is little likelihood that such a tool could ever be developed.
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... 81Previous discussion has addressed technological problems and potential solutions related to key locating and characterization issues, including deep utilities, nonconducting utilities, congested utilities, unfavorable site conditions, mitigation of practical limitations on theoretical performance, multisensor approaches, target recognition, 3-D location and transfer to geographic information system/computer-aided design (GIS/ CAD) databases, development of additional approaches, and utility characterization improvements.

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