Efficient ERT measuring and inversion strategies for 3D imaging of buried antiquities

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 349-361

  Papadopoulos, Nikos G ^a,b   Tsourlos, P ^a   Tsokas, G N ^a   Sarris, A ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; INSTRUMENTATION; INVERSE PROBLEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 39749137461     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2007017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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