Activities conducted in the Nondestructive Technology Laboratory are aimed at the development and application of nondestructive investigation (NDT) methods to the inspection and monitoring of transportation infrastructure.
The NDTLab relies on several nondestructive technologies, including various Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems for monitoring road pavements and transportation infrastructure more generally.
There are also numerous active collaborations with major industrial and public players operating in the field.

More recently, research activities have been directed toward the application of Remote Sensing techniques and in particular Satellite Interferometry (InSAR) for the purpose of monitoring transportation networks.
The use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) installed on Earth-orbiting satellites enables the collection of densely updated databases of electromagnetic images.
The availability of these datasets, with a ground resolution capable of up to the meter, offered by national and European space agencies, has enabled the deepening of specific data processing techniques for the inspection of infrastructure networks.

Thus, the main areas of investigation and application contexts covered by the activities carried out by the NDTLab can be summarized as follows:
– monitoring of road pavements;
– inspection of road and railroad bridges and viaducts;
– survey of airport runways and aprons;
– assessment of the condition of railroad ballast.