Sensitivity of electrical resistivity tomography data to electrode position errors

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Oldenborger, Greg A ^a   Routh, Partha S ^a   Knoll, Michael D ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borehole geophysics; Electrical resistivity; Hydrology; Potential field; Sensitivity; Tomography

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745246044     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02714.x     Document Type: Article

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