M. A. Uge, G. Karcıoğlu, A. B.Tekkeli, M. S. Arslan
{"title":"Inversion of VLF Data Using a Non-Linear Smoothing Operator","authors":"M. A. Uge, G. Karcıoğlu, A. B.Tekkeli, M. S. Arslan","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120103","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Inversion of electromagnetic induction data, including VLF, is generally realized using smooth inversion methods. The smoothness of the recovered models and the regularization of the ill-conditioned problem is ensured with smoothing matrices. Smoothing matrices are simple linear derivative matrices penalizing the resistivity differences between adjacent cells. Since these matrices are linear operators, they are calculated once at the beginning of the inversion process. Considering its structure, smoothing matrices can be considered similar to low-pass Gaussian filters. Similarly, it’s possible to define a non-linear smoothing operator based on rank order filtering. We have defined a non-linear smoothing constraint based on these filters and penalized the differences from the cells corresponding to the desired rank value. Since the defined constraint is non-linear it is re-calculated as the model parameters change. The defined constraint is tested on synthetic data and its results are compared to the results obtained with a traditional smoothing matrix. Accordingly, the defined non-linear rank order smoothing constraint can provide relatively focused, amplified structures, and can increase blockiness.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124791343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surface-Waves Extraction Using a Shot-Receiver-Time Transformation","authors":"Y. Ding, A. Malehmir","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120015","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Seismic data contain rich information carried by different types of waves, such as direct arrivals (P- and S-waves), reflections, diffractions and surface-waves. In order to utilize a specific type of wave, one needs to isolate this wanted signal from others. We propose a method to extract and/or remove mainly the dispersive surface-waves based on their geometrical property in the shot-receiver-time domain for seismic data acquired along 2D acquisition profiles. We first assemble all shot gathers into a pseudo 3D data with dimensions of shot locations, receiver locations, and time. The shot-receiver-time domain enables us to process the data along different dimensions, not restricted to the shot domain only. With the assumption of a 1D velocity model, we find that the dispersive surface-waves in a shot gather behave linearly in a time isochrone, which cuts through all shots and receivers. The linear geometrical property of the surface-waves in the time isochrone allows us to extract them efficiently and effectively using for example curvelet-based transforms. By applying the method along the time isochrones for the time samples where surface-waves are present, surface-waves can be extracted from the pseudo 3D data. We exemplify this method using a synthetic data and a field data.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124620503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capacitive Electrical Resistivity: An Alternative Non-Invasive Method for Permafrost Monitoring","authors":"S. Bazin, S. Syed, G. Gilbert, B. Etzelmüller","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120013","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Currently, permafrost is degraded due to global warming and subsurface geophysics can contribute to characterize this degradation. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is very effective in mapping frozen soils due to the strong resistivity contrast between ice and water. We present an example of 2D and 3D resistivity imaging using a capacitive coupling resistivity (CCR) survey method in Svalbard permafrost. Although little work has been published on the mapping of the active layer of permafrost (i.e. the ground layer which thaws annually) with the CCR method, this case study shows its advantage as non-invasive compared to all other investigating methods.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121455020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ensemble-Based Time-Lapse ERT Inversion with Model and Data Space Compression Through Deep Variational Autoencoders","authors":"A. Vinciguerra, M. Aleardi","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120116","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (TL-ERT) aims to image resistivity changes in the subsurface. This is an ill-posed and non-unique inverse problem and hence the estimation of the model uncertainties is of crucial importance. To reduce the computational cost of the probabilistic inversion, model and data can be re-parameterized into low-dimensional spaces where the inverse solution can be computed more efficiently. Among the many compression methods, deep learning algorithms based on deep generative models provide an efficient approach to reduce model and data spaces. Here, we propose a TL-ERT probabilistic inversion where the data and model spaces are compressed through deep variational autoencoders, while the optimization procedure is driven by the ensemble smoother with multiple data assimilation, an iterative ensemble-based algorithm that performs a Bayesian updating step at each iteration. This method provides multiple realizations for the quantification of the uncertainty by iteratively updating an initial ensemble of models that we generate according to previously defined prior model and spatial variability pattern. A finite-element code constitutes the forward operator. We test the method on synthetic data computed over a schematic subsurface model. Our tests demonstrate the applicability and the reliability of the proposed TL-ERT inversion.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132016250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Dupuy, A. Tobiesen, A. Grover, A. Einbu, A. Romdhane
{"title":"Drone Geophysics for Forecasting and Monitoring Natural Hazards","authors":"B. Dupuy, A. Tobiesen, A. Grover, A. Einbu, A. Romdhane","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120098","url":null,"abstract":"Summary We present an innovative approach to combine different sensors on a flexible drone platform. The goal is to record repeatable data that can be used to forecast and monitor natural hazards such as snow avalanches and landslides.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128596031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Garré, T. Deswaef, I. Borra‐Serrano, P. Lootens, G. Blanchy
{"title":"The potential of electrical imaging for field root zone phenotyping","authors":"S. Garré, T. Deswaef, I. Borra‐Serrano, P. Lootens, G. Blanchy","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120221","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Providing enough food for a growing population while preserving natural resources and biodiversity is one of the challenges of the 21st century. A key pathway to maximize yields in a sustainable way is to select and grow crops that are optimally adapted to their environment. Plant performance is determined by characteristics or ‘traits’ which are partially genetically determined. Nevertheless, cultivars with the same genome (G) express different appearances or ‘phenomes’ in different environments (E) and under different management practices (M). Phenotyping the below-ground traits of plants is not straightforward, due to the opaque nature of soil. Non-invasive geophysical techniques to study the root zone have substantially advanced in recent years.Their biggest potential lies in indirect monitoring of water depletion in the root zone, especially in time-lapse mode. To explore the potential of integrating geophysics in a field phenotyping platform, we first generated a range scenarios of soil moisture dynamics for different soils and grass cultivars. Then we generated ERT data from these distributions for selected electrode setups and then inverted them back to obtain conductivity distributions. In this way, we checked the performance of different electrode arrays to delineate root water uptake patterns in various realistic conditions.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128849209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Ayolabi, O. Balogun, M. O. Okunubi, R. Akinwale
{"title":"Preliminary Evaluation of Geothermal Energy Potential in Western Part of Dahomey Basin, Southwestern Nigeria","authors":"E. Ayolabi, O. Balogun, M. O. Okunubi, R. Akinwale","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120119","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Geothermal Energy, Dahomey Basin, Curie Point Depth, Temperature Gradient, Heat Flux","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128457289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gas Hazard and Origin: Near-Surface Zone of the Upper and Lower Silesian Coal Basins","authors":"M. Kotarba, H. Sechman","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120008","url":null,"abstract":"Summary In 1991–2001 the all coal mines in the Lower Silesian Coal Basin (LSCB) were closed and remediated. In the middle of the 1990s mine restructuring process started at the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB). At that time 65 coal mines were operational. In 2019 22 mines were still active. The main aims of this presentation are to determine the origin of soil gases in the USCB and LSCB and evaluate gas hazard caused by secondary migration of coalbed methane and carbon dioxide from Carboniferous coal-bearing strata to near-surface zone connected with the restitution of groundwater level to the original position (“piston effect”). For evaluating gas hazard surface geochemical survey and determining the origin of soil and coalbed gases, stable isotope analyses and simulation of generation of thermogenic gases by hydrous pyrolysis experiments were performed. Comprehensive geochemical, geological and hydrogeological studies carried out in the zones of closed mines in the USCB and LSCB allowed for detecting the surface range of occurrence of anomalous concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide at the surface, the mechanism of the flow of these formation gases into the near-surface zone and establish to what an extent the local population living in post-mining areas is hazarded.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"71 1-2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116720789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Whiteley, A. Watlet, S. Uhlemann, P. Wilkinson, J. Boyd, C. Jordan, M. Kendall, J. Chambers
{"title":"Integrating Electrical Resistivity and Seismic Refraction Tomography at an Active Landslide Site","authors":"J. Whiteley, A. Watlet, S. Uhlemann, P. Wilkinson, J. Boyd, C. Jordan, M. Kendall, J. Chambers","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120127","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This study demonstrates a procedure for preparing co-acquired ERT and SRT data from an active landslide for joint quantitative interpretation. We show the results of integrating these co-located datasets using a simple clustering approach to improve the interpretation of the inverted models. The results identify the major lithological units forming the structure of the landslide, and provide an example of the benefits of quantitative integration and interpretation.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126905965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Most Accurate or Fastest Possible? The Multi-Frequency SIP Excitation Enables a Choice","authors":"T. Radić","doi":"10.3997/2214-4609.202120022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202120022","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The Spectral Induced Polarization (SIP) method measures the frequency dependence of the electrical resistivity of rocks and sediments by magnitude and phase. Usually, the resistivity spectrum is measured sequentially with mono-frequency signals. This method proves to be advantageous for large-scale measurement set-ups and high interference voltages, as it provides the highest measurement accuracy. For small-scale field measurements or laboratory measurements, interference voltages often play only a subordinate role. Here, it is also important to achieve the highest possible measurement progress. This can be doubled by multi-frequency excitation compared to mono-frequency excitation. However, the price of faster measurement is a somewhat higher measurement error. We have implemented and successfully tested both excitation techniques in a new 88-channel laboratory measuring instrument (SIP-LAB-FAST). The user now has the choice between the most accurate or the fastest possible measurement. He can thus optimally adapt the measurement process to the requirements of the object under examination.","PeriodicalId":120362,"journal":{"name":"NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123726935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}