Estimating subsurface porosity and salt loads using airborne geophysical data

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-37

  Ley Cooper, Yusen ^a   Macnae, James ^b   Tweed, Sarah ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; AQUIFER; BOREHOLE; DATA SET; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GROUNDWATER; POROSITY; SALT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER TABLE;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY BASIN; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 38849129980     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2007029     Document Type: Article

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