Electrical resistivity and seismic refraction tomography to detect buried cavities

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 685-695

  Cardarelli, Ettore ^a   Cercato, Michele ^a   Cerreto, Antonio ^b   Di Filippo, Gerardina ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b External contractor ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical resistivity survey; Inversion; Seismic refraction and cavities; Tomography

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; CAVITY DETECTION; CAVITY LOCATION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; HUMAN SAFETY; INVERSION; INVERSION PROCESS; JOINT INTERPRETATION; KEY ISSUES; NEAR-SURFACE; NONINVASIVE METHODS; RESISTIVITY DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSURFACE VOIDS; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; TOWN CENTRE;

COAL MINES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; REFRACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SEISMOLOGY; SURVEYS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

BURIED STRUCTURE; CAVITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INVERSE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VOID;

ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME;

EID: 77953598947     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2009.00854.x     Document Type: Article

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