Improved strategies for the automatic selection of optimized sets of electrical resistivity tomography measurement configurations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1119-1126

  Wilkinson, Paul B ^a   Meldrum, Philip I ^a   Chambers, Jonathan E ^a   Kuras, Oliver ^a   Ogilvy, Richard D ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical resistivity; Inverse theory; Numerical techniques; Sensitivity; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845313961     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03196.x     Document Type: Article

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