Imaging artificial salt water infiltration using electrical resistivity tomography constrained by geostatistical data

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 438-439, Issue , 2012, Pages 168-180

  Hermans, Thomas ^a   Vandenbohede, Alexander ^b   Lebbe, Luc ^b   Martin, Roland ^c   Kemna, Andreas ^c   Beaujean, Jean ^a   Nguyen, Frederic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical resistivity tomography; Geostatistical constraint; Inversion; Regularization; Salt water intrusion; Variogram

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GEOSTATISTICAL CONSTRAINTS; INVERSION; REGULARIZATION; VARIOGRAMS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SEAWATER;

BOREHOLES;

BOREHOLE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DUNE FIELD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; NATURE RESERVE; PLUME; SALINE INTRUSION; SEAWATER; TOMOGRAPHY; VARIOGRAM;

BELGIUM; WEST FLANDERS; WESTHOEK NATURE RESERVE;

EID: 84860358222     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.03.021     Document Type: Article

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