Monitoring hydraulic processes with automated time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ALERT)

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 868-885

  Kuras, Olivier ^a   Pritchard, Jonathan D ^a   Meldrum, Philip I ^a   Chambers, Jonathan E ^a   Wilkinson, Paul B ^a   Ogilvy, Richard D ^a   Wealthall, Gary P ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated remote geophysical monitoring; Cross borehole tomography; Hydraulic processes; Time lapse electrical resistivity tomography; Tracer test

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FLOW FIELD; HYDRAULICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; POROUS MEDIUM; TRACER; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 70350410264     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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