Case studies of incorporation of prior information in electrical resistivity tomography: Comparison of different approaches

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 451-465

  Caterina, David ^a   Hermans, Thomas ^a   Nguyen, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84906511462     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2013070     Document Type: Article

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