A shallow geothermal experiment in a sandy aquifer monitored using electric resistivity tomography

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hermans, Thomas ^a,b   Vandenbohede, Alexander ^c   Lebbe, Luc ^c   Nguyen, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Geothermal; Monitoring; Resistivity; Time lapse; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL WELLS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MONITORING; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRIC RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATING TEMPERATURES; GEOTHERMAL; GEOTHERMAL EXPLOITATION; RESISTIVITY VARIATION; SHALLOW GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TIME-LAPSE;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MONITORING SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84857490243     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0199.1     Document Type: Article

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