Geophysical investigation of tumuli by means of surface 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 192-205

  Papadopoulos, Nikos G ^a   Yi, Myeong Jong ^a   Kim, Jung Ho ^a   Tsourlos, Panagiotis ^b   Tsokas, Gregory N ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D ERT; Modeling and inversion; Tumulus; Vergina archaeological site

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

3D ERT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; GAUSS-NEWTON ALGORITHM; SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TUMULUS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MONUMENT; MUD MOUND; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

GREECE;

EID: 77958192425     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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