Scenario Evaluator for Electrical Resistivity Survey Pre-modeling Tool.

ABSTRACT: Geophysical tools have much to offer users in environmental, water resource, and geotechnical fields; however, techniques such as electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) are often oversold and/or overinterpreted due to a lack of understanding of the limitations of the techniques, such as the appropriate depth intervals or resolution of the methods. The relationship between ERI data and resistivity is nonlinear; therefore, these limitations depend on site conditions and survey design and are best assessed through forward and inverse modeling exercises prior to field investigations. In this approach, proposed field surveys are first numerically simulated given the expected electrical properties of the site, and the resulting hypothetical data are then analyzed using inverse models. Performing E

SUBMITTER: Terry N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6145077 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature