A saline tracer test monitored via both surface and cross-borehole electrical resistivity tomography: Comparison of time-lapse results

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 79, Issue , 2012, Pages 6-16

  Perri, M T ^a   Cassiani, G ^a   Gervasio, I ^b   Deiana, R ^a   Binley, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross hole methods; Electrical resistivity tomography; ERT; Hydrogeology; Tracer test

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVE; CROSS-BOREHOLE CONFIGURATION; CROSS-HOLE METHODS; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ERT; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FIELD INVESTIGATION; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; GROUND SURFACES; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; HYDROGEOPHYSICAL; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; PHREATIC; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; SALINE TRACER; SATURATED ZONE; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SURFACE ELECTRODE; TRACER TESTS;

AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEOLOGY;

RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

AQUIFER; BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROGEOLOGY; PHREATIC ZONE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SALINITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ITALY; TREVISO; VENETO;

EID: 84856351684     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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