About AMG Technologies
AMG Technologies in brief
AMG Technologies Oy was founded in 2023 in Rovaniemi, Finland, by Dr. Rani Hamrouche and Eetu Pussinen. We survey roads, motorways, railways, airfields, bridges and other structures with ground penetrating radar and deliver the diagnosis: the structure as it is, where it is weak, and what to do first. Two programs carry the work: AMG Software, our in-house processing chain, and AMG Viewer Edition, the viewer our clients keep. We work with partners in France and deliver worldwide.
Our mission: to empower infrastructure stakeholders with digital subsurface diagnostics and monitoring that extend durability, target maintenance and reduce environmental impact, for the resilient transport infrastructure of tomorrow.
AMG is led by a founder with extensive experience in GPR research and development and a long record of international projects, with a team whose members each bring 20 to 30 years in roads, airfields, railways, structures and radar.
The team
Dr. Rani Hamrouche
Founder and CEO
PhD in GPR imaging (2011), 20 years of GPR diagnostics and processing development, co-inventor of three patented road diagnostic methods. Patents, publications and citations below.
Eetu Pussinen
Co-founder and vice president, business development
Founder and CEO of Comadev Oy, a drilling contractor from Rovaniemi operating in the Nordic countries and Africa; vice chair of the board of Mining Finland.
Jean-Luc Marie Moigno
Regional manager, France
Customer relations, logistics and general matters in France.
Partners
AMG and its partners put their skills together: AMG’s processing software and diagnostics, Aquitaine Radar’s survey experience, Master Horizon’s airport asset management expertise.
Marc Huault
Airfield infrastructure expert, Master Horizon (partner)
Civil engineer (ECL, 1989), more than 30 years in airport and road infrastructure: 13 years on large road and airport works with public works companies abroad, 3 years in design offices on motorway and runway projects, 17 years in airport asset management, including head of the airport department of Toulouse-Blagnac from 2006 to 2023. For 12 years he created and led the infrastructure working group of the French-speaking airports. He advises on pavement asset management, on contracts and technical specifications, and on what to do after the diagnostics.
Christophe Geay
Founder and CEO of Aquitaine Radar (partner)
Electronics engineer (CNAM), former technician of the Ponts et Chaussées network. Twenty years of radar imaging for motorway operators, public works companies and airport managers in France and abroad: pavement layer thicknesses, bridge decks and concrete structures, utilities and cavities, quality control of new works, 3D radar scanning. Aquitaine Radar, founded in 2005 in Lagarrigue.
Why AMG
Three things come together in our team, each member with decades in roads, railways and airports:
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Non-destructive testing expertise: the radar systems, the processing and the interpretation, with our own software.
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Infrastructure design and rehabilitation experience, so that the diagnosis becomes practical, scalable work.
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Knowledge of aircraft and airfield characteristics, traffic loads and motorway behaviour, and of how they interact.
Given today’s global economic needs and modern digital solutions, diagnostics are no longer just a possibility, but an imperative. France’s Cour des comptes finds objective and sufficiently frequent diagnostics of road condition still too rare, and makes a reliable diagnosis the first step of any maintenance policy (2022): that is where we start. The figures and the sources.
Benefit for the customer
Non-destructive testing creates a digital twin of the pavement subsurface, with no impact on traffic or on the structure. The twin targets the assessment, the monitoring and the maintenance planning: owners, operators and contractors find deterioration before it shows at the surface, prevent costly failures, cut direct and indirect maintenance costs, reduce the environmental impact of the works, plan their budgets on the measured condition rather than on the calendar, and keep the traffic moving: nothing is closed for the survey, and the works are planned, not forced. Life-cycle studies find that preservation lowers a road’s emissions overall, the works themselves counted (Rutgers University, 2020). The figures and the sources.
Dr. Rani Hamrouche
Dr. Rani Hamrouche has worked on ground penetrating radar diagnostics of transport infrastructure since 2007: processing development and research, more than 50 international projects since 2012, three patented road diagnostic methods as co-inventor, and the processing chain that became AMG Software.
Research, 2007 to 2011
In 2007 he began a dual PhD at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse (France), on GPR imaging algorithms for historical masonry structures, completed in 2011.
Roadscanners, from 2012
In 2012 he joined Roadscanners Oy as a GPR specialist. Besides more than 50 international projects, he contributed to research and development, among it the coreless technique, which reaches 5% accuracy on layer thickness without physical core samples.
He contributed to the development of GPR processing methods to detect excavation-damaged zones, the cracking around excavations in bedrock, for Posiva Oy, the Finnish company behind the world’s first deep geological repository for nuclear waste. He also contributed to the development of the moisture damage index (MDI) algorithms. As head of Roadscanners’ airport division, he developed the tools and processes for GPR in airport infrastructure.
Patents and recognition
He is co-inventor of three patented methods for road diagnostics with ground penetrating radar, owned by Roadscanners: detecting cracks in road pavements, evaluating the moisture-related damage risk of road structures, and controlling compaction from the moisture of the material. The patents are granted in Finland, in Europe and in the United States. The New Zealand Transport Agency research report 611 (2017) credits him with developing the moisture damage index (MDI) algorithms used in that study.
AMG Technologies, since 2023
With AMG Technologies he brings GPR expertise and infrastructure experts together, so that the owner of an asset receives a diagnosis and a plan, not a radar file. He is the author of several publications on GPR technologies, listed below.
Education
PhD in GPR imaging, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse and Université de Sherbrooke, 2011. Executive MBA, Henley Business School, triple-accredited (AMBA, EQUIS, AACSB) and 33rd in the Financial Times Executive MBA ranking 2025. Specialised training in airport pavement condition assessment, École des Ponts ParisTech.
20 years
of GPR diagnostics and processing development
3 patents
co-invented, granted in Finland, Europe and the United States
50+ projects
worldwide since 2012
Publications
• “Innovative approach in the use of GPR and LIDAR for surface and subsurface airfield pavement evaluation” Speaker at the ASCE/International Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference 2021, USA.
• "Simulation and Detection Limit of EM Waves in Masonry Structures with Application of An Algorithm for Image Processing". Paper presented at Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium Proceedings Marrakesh, Morocco, 20 to 23 March 2011.
• "Inspection of masonry brick using GPR". Presented at the Symposium "Le Pont" on the structures 19 and 20 October 2010 in Toulouse, France.
• "Assessing the status of underground concrete by Non-Destructive Testing " Paper presented at the Symposium INFRA, Mont-Tremblant, November 2009, Quebec, Canada
• "Simulations of the propagation of GPR waves in masonry structures". Paper presented at the 16th Symposium on the progress of research on Quebec bridges, 5 and 6 May 2009, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
Patents
• “Method for detecting cracks in road pavement”. FI 129834 B (2022), EP 4204854 B1 (2025), US 12,578,457 B2 (2026).
• “Method for operating a movable compaction device during material compaction work”. EP 4150330 B1 (2024), US 12,612,745 B2 (2026).
• “A method for evaluating moisture related damage risk of a road structure”. FI 129516 B (2022).
Cited in
• “Ground Penetrating Radar: Fundamentals, Methodologies and Applications in Structures and Infrastructure”. M. Solla, H. Lorenzo, V. Pérez-Gracia, chapter in “Non-Destructive Techniques for the Evaluation of Structures and Infrastructure”, CRC Press (2016).
• “Inspection Procedures for Effective GPR Surveying of Buildings”. V. Pérez-Gracia, M. Solla, chapter in “Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar”, Springer (2015).
• “Super-Resolution of 3-D GPR Signals to Estimate Thin Asphalt Overlay Thickness Using the XCMP Method”. S. Zhao, I. L. Al-Qadi, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2019).
• “Random forest algorithm and support vector machine for nondestructive assessment of mass moisture content of brick walls in historic buildings”. A. Hoła, S. Czarnecki, Automation in Construction (2023).
• “Electromagnetic evaluation of brick specimens using synthetic aperture radar imaging”. Q. Tang, J. Hu, T. Yu, NDT & E International (2019).
• “Assessment of Complex Masonry Structures with GPR Compared to Other Non-Destructive Testing Studies”. S. Santos-Assunção et al., Remote Sensing (2014).
• “Evaluation of pavement layer thicknesses using GPR: A comparison between full-wave inversion and the straight-ray method”. A. De Coster et al., Construction and Building Materials (2018).
• “IRT and GPR Techniques for Moisture Detection and Characterisation in Buildings”. I. Garrido et al., Sensors (2020).
• “Comparative Study of Ground Penetrating Radar Systems with Time Delay Methods for Accurate Pavement Thickness and Dielectric Constant Estimation”. A. Fares et al., Transportation Research Record (2024).
• “Pavement moisture measurement to indicate risk to pavement life”. New Zealand Transport Agency, research report 611 (2017). The report credits Rani Hamrouche with developing the moisture damage index (MDI) algorithms used in the study.
• Patents: the compaction patent is cited by Hamm AG (EP 4660374 A1, 2025), and the crack detection patent by Changsha University of Science and Technology (CN 121613517 B, 2026).
• Google Scholar counts 70 citations in all (October 2026).