Monitoring the hydrologic behaviour of a mountain slope via time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 7, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 475-486

  Cassiani, G ^a   Godio, A ^b   Stocco, S ^b   Villa, A ^c   Deiana, R ^a   Frattini, P ^c   Rossi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HILLSLOPE; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM CHANNEL; SURFACE LAYER; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS;

EID: 77951058234     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2009013     Document Type: Article

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