Practical aspects of applied optimized survey design for electrical resistivity tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 428-440

  Wilkinson, Paul B ^a   Loke, Meng Heng ^b   Meldrum, Philip I ^a   Chambers, Jonathan E ^a   Kuras, Oliver ^a   Gunn, David A ^a   Ogilvy, Richard D ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOTOMO SOFTWARE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Electrical properties; Inverse theory; Numerical approximations and analysis; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LANDSLIDES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA NOISE; DESIGN STRATEGIES; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; ELECTRODE POLARIZATIONS; ERROR MODEL; FIELD DATA; GEOELECTRICAL; INVERSE THEORY; MEASUREMENT CHANNELS; MONITORING SYSTEM; MULTI-CHANNEL; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; POLARIZATION ERRORS; RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; SINGLE CHANNELS; SURVEY DESIGN; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; DESIGN; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SURVEYS; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84858614898     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05372.x     Document Type: Article

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