Improvement of electrical resistivity tomography for leachate injection monitoring

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 452-464

  Clement R ^a   Descloitres, M ^a   Gunther T ^b   Oxarango, L ^a   Morra, C ^c   Laurent, J P ^a   Gourc, J P ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c Floralis   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D INVERSION; ARRAY GEOMETRIES; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; FIELD APPLICATION; GAS MIGRATION; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; IN-SITU MONITORING; INVARIANT REGIONS; KEY PROCESS; LEACHATE INJECTION; LEACHATE RECIRCULATION; LIQUID FLOW; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MUNICIPAL WASTE; NUMERICAL MODELLING; POLE-DIPOLE ARRAYS; RESISTIVITY VARIATION; SYNTHETIC MODELS; TOOL USE; WASTE LANDFILL;

BIODEGRADATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

REFUSE DISPOSAL;

ARTIFACT; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BIOREACTOR; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS DIFFUSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LANDFILL LEACHATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL INFILTRATION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; TIME FACTORS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 73849094742     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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