Applicability of electrical resistivity tomography monitoring to coarse blocky and ice-rich permafrost landforms

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-284

  Hilbich, C ^a   Marescot, L ^b   Hauck, C ^c   Loke, M H ^d   Mausbacher, R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d GEOTOMO SOFTWARE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Depth of investigation (DOI) index; Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT); Forward inverse modelling; Murt l rockglacier; Permafrost geophysics; Resolution matrix

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FORWARD MODELING; PERMAFROST; ROCK GLACIER; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 69949084305     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.652     Document Type: Article

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