electrical resistivity survey is used to explore subsurface layers in hydrology, geology, mining, geotechnical and environmental investigations. the resistivity measurements are normally made by injecting current into the ground through two current electrodes, and measuring the resulting voltage difference at two potential electrodes. electrical resistivity is a function of injection current, m...

The estimation of soil parameters of multilayer structure leads to useful information for designing a safe grounding system. This paper presents a nonlinear regression based estimation scheme to extract soil parameters from the kernel function of apparent earth resistivity. The kernel function of apparent earth resistivity can be obtained from the measured apparent earth resistivity data. The p...

A magnetotelluric monitoring station has been installed in the Val d’Agri area (southern Italy), to investigate the physics underlying the generation mechanisms of the electrokinetic effect, due to rapid pore pressure changes and fluid flows near the focal area of incoming earthquakes. It is well known that the magnetotelluric method reveals variations in electrical resistivity within the Earth...

The calculation of apparent resistivities, based on the model of a homogeneous half-space, is commonly the first step in Ž . order to evaluate helicopter electromagnetic HEM data. Due to the increase in frequencies used in HEM systems, survey results are not only displayed as apparent resistivity maps but also as cross-sections that require resistivity and depth information. After a brief descr...

Water disaster is one of the five natural disasters in coal mines, and it badly threats the lives safety of miners. As well known, the main reason of evoked flooding is water conducted fractured zone in the coal seam. Based on the Maxwell equation, we try to study the relationship between apparent resistivity and stratigraphic dip as well as strata direction. The numerical results show that the...

generally, the measured secondary field data is inverted into resistivity using two principal models; the homogeneous half-space model and the layered half-space model. while the homogeneous half-space inversion uses single frequency data, the inversion is done individually for each of the frequencies used, the multi-layer 1d inversion is able to take the data of all frequencies available into ...

The probability tomography approach developed for the scalar resistivity method is here extended to the 2D tensorial apparent resistivity acquisition mode. The rotational invariant derived from the trace of the apparent resistivity tensor is considered, since it gives on the datum plane anomalies confined above the buried objects. Firstly, a departure function is introduced as the difference be...