Development and testing of displacement inversion to track electrode movements on 3-D electrical resistivity tomography monitoring grids

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1566-1581

  Wilkinson, Paul B ^a   Uhlemann, Sebastian ^a   Chambers, Jonathan E ^a   Meldrum, Philip I ^a   Loke, Meng Heng ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOTOMO SOFTWARE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Electrical properties; Hydrogeophysics; Inverse theory; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ACTIVE LANDSLIDES; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE DISPLACEMENTS; GEOELECTRICAL; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; INVERSE THEORY; MOISTURE DYNAMICS; MONITORING GRIDS; RESISTIVITY STRUCTURE;

ELECTRODES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84928185768     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu483     Document Type: Article

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