Urban archaeological investigations using surface 3D Ground Penetrating Radar and Electrical Resistivity Tomography methods

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-68

  Papadopoulos, Nikos ^a   Sarris, Apostolos ^b   Yi, Myeong Jong ^a   Kim, Jung Ho ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D resistivity tomography; Archaeological investigation; Ground penetrating radar; Urban areas.

Indexed keywords

3D INVERSION; 3D RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; APPARENT RESISTIVITY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION; CONSTRUCTION WORKS; DENSE NETWORK; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; GPR REFLECTION; GPR TECHNIQUES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; RESISTIVITY STRUCTURE; SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES; TEST FIELDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); URBAN AREAS.; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN TERRITORIES;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EXCAVATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67649512561     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG08107     Document Type: Article

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