Spatial monitoring of groundwater drawdown and rebound associated with quarry dewatering using automated time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography and distribution guided clustering

Engineering Geology

Volumn 193, Issue , 2015, Pages 412-420

  Chambers, J E ^a   Meldrum, P I ^a   Wilkinson, P B ^a   Ward, W ^b   Jackson, C ^a   Matthews, B ^c   Joel, P ^c   Kuras, O ^a   Bai, L ^b   Uhlemann, S ^a,d   Gunn, D ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Lafarge Tarmac   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clustering; Dewatering; Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT); Groundwater monitoring; Image analysis; Mining

Indexed keywords

DEWATERING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINING; MINING LAWS AND REGULATIONS; MONITORING; QUARRIES; WATER LEVELS;

CLUSTERING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER CONDITIONS; GROUNDWATER DRAWDOWN; GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER MONITORING; MINING AND QUARRYING; MONITORING APPLICATIONS;

GROUNDWATER;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEWATERING; DRAWDOWN; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUNDWATER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINING; QUARRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 84930864877     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2015.05.015     Document Type: Article

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