Electrical Resistivity Tomography Investigations of MultiLayered Archaeological Settlements: Part I - Modelling

Archaeological Prospection

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-171

  Berge, Meriç Aziz ^a   Drahor, Mahmut Göktuǧ ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Electrical resistivity tomography; Inversion; Modelling; Multilayered settlements; Quasi three dimensional data; Semi fully three dimensional data

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051915100     PISSN: 10752196     EISSN: 10990763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arp.414     Document Type: Article

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