Zonation for 3D aquifer characterization based on joint inversions of multimethod crosshole geophysical data

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Doetsch, Joseph ^a   Linde, Niklas ^b   Coscia, Ilaria ^a   Greenhalgh, Stewart A ^a,c   Green, Alan G ^a  

^a Institute of Geophysics   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GRAVEL; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PETROPHYSICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AQUIFER CHARACTERISTICS; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PETROPHYSICAL ANALYSIS; PETROPHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AQUIFER; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOLOGY; POROSITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; ZONATION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84857240013     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3496476     Document Type: Article

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