2-D joint structural inversion of cross-hole electrical resistance and ground penetrating radar data

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 78, Issue , 2012, Pages 52-67

  Bouchedda, Abderrezak ^a   Chouteau, Michel ^a   Binley, Andrew ^b   Giroux, Bernard ^c  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERT; Joint structural inversion; RTT; Wavelet thresholding

Indexed keywords

BLOCKY MODEL; BOUNDARY CELL; CANNY EDGE DETECTORS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; ERT; GAUSS-NEWTON ITERATION; GEOPHYSICAL LOGS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HIGH NOISE LEVELS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; INVERSION ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE THRESHOLDING; JOINT INVERSION; JOINT STRUCTURAL INVERSION; MATRIX; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; RTT; SANDSTONE AQUIFER; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; SYNTHETIC MODELS; THRESHOLDING; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY; VADOSE ZONE; VARYING BACKGROUND; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET REPRESENTATION; WAVELET THRESHOLDING; WEIGHTING MATRICES;

AQUIFERS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; HYDROGEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VADOSE ZONE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856603721     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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