Extreme sensitivity of crosshole electrical resistivity tomography measurements to geometric errors

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-62

  Wilkinson, Paul B ^a   Chambers, Jonathan E ^a   Lelliott, Mike ^a   Wealthall, Gary P ^a   Ogilvy, Richard D ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Downhole methods; Electrical properties; Hydrogeophysics; Inverse theory; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BOREHOLE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 41249092828     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03725.x     Document Type: Article

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