{"title":"Authors and Best Reviewers' Biographies","authors":"","doi":"10.32389/1083-1363-26.3.249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/1083-1363-26.3.249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76895468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal Transceiver Distance of Controlled-source Audio-frequency Magnetotelluric Sounding Method","authors":"Lei Zhou, Xingbing Xie, Xinyu Wang, Liangjun Yan","doi":"10.32389/jeeg20-028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg20-028","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, the use of Cagniard apparent resistivity and phase is still the main method and means to process and interpret controlled-source audio-frequency magnetotelluric (CSAMT) sounding data. The CSAMT data must meet the conditions in the far zone to use the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding inversion interpretation method. The conditions in the far zone are directly related to transceiver distance; Hence, the distance measured by the CSAMT method is directly related to the reliability and credibility of the data. In this study, based on the formation wave and ground wave of the analytical expression for the electric field in a uniform half-space condition, the response laws of the formation wave and the ground wave are analyzed. After rigorous mathematical derivation, the formula for determining the optimal transceiver distance of the CSAMT is obtained, and the steps for using this formula in practical application are given. The actual field application verifies the rationality of the derived formula. This study provides a reference for the design of a CSAMT field source, and effectively guides the determination of CSAMT transceiver distance in the field.","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79154786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Author and Best Reviewers Biographies","authors":"","doi":"10.32389/1083-1363-26.2.177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/1083-1363-26.2.177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"376 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76627705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xin Wang, Hongyan Shen, Xin-xin Li, Qin Li, Daoyuan Wang
{"title":"Rayleigh Wave Dispersion Curve Inversion with the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm","authors":"Xin Wang, Hongyan Shen, Xin-xin Li, Qin Li, Daoyuan Wang","doi":"10.32389/jeeg20-062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg20-062","url":null,"abstract":"Rayleigh wave dispersion curve inversion is a non-linear iterative optimization process with multi-parameter and multi-extrema. It is difficult to carry out inversion and reconstruction of stratigraphic parameters quickly and accurately with a single linear or non-linear inversion for the data processing of Rayleigh waves with complex seismic geological conditions. We proposed a new method that combines artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) and damped least squares algorithm (DLS) to invert Rayleigh wave dispersion curve. First, food sources are initialized in a large scale of the model based on the prior geological information. Then, after three kinds of bee operators (employed bees, onlooker bees and scout bees) transform each other and perform search optimization with several iterations, the targets are converged near the optimal solution to obtain an initial S-wave velocity model. Finally, the final S-wave velocity model is obtained by local optimization of DLS inversion with fast convergence and strong stability. The correctness of the method has been verified by one high-velocity interlayer model, and it was further applied to a real Rayleigh wave dataset. The results show that our method not only absorbs the advantages of ABC global search optimization and strong adaptability, but also makes full use of the advantages of DLS inversion, such as high accuracy and fast convergence speed. The inversion strategy can effectively suppress the inversion falling into local extrema, get rid of the dependence on an initial model, enhance the inversion stability, further improve the convergence speed and inversion accuracy, while has good anti-noise ability.","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84254086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling Microgravity Anomalies That Accounts of the Pore Water Drainage Inferred from The Dc-Resistivity Sounding Data Over a Coal Panel","authors":"E. Buyuk, A. Karaman","doi":"10.32389/jeeg20-072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg20-072","url":null,"abstract":"A microgravity data set presented in a previous study exhibits distinct short-wavelength anomalies over a longwall coal mine panel at Soma-Darkale Coalfield. Nevertheless, our preliminary models suggest that the wavelength after the coal removal from a panel at a moderate depth and fracturing alone should be incomparably greater than that of the measured anomalies. Understanding the mechanism that causes these anomalies usually becomes critical to provide credible evidence for longwall mining-related legal cases. This study improves the model by including the post-subsidence drainage as it occurs because of fracturing that causes an increase in water storage and local density change. Since no water-level information was available at the site, we attempted to infer the drained zone from the dc-resistivity sounding measurements acquired shortly before the gravity field survey. The wavelengths of the model anomalies became reasonably comparable with that of the residual anomalies after the inclusion of the inferred drainage information. This presented approach that does not require water level measurements shows that the inclusion of the inferred drained zone to the model became an amplifying indicator of a coal panel at a moderate depth. Therefore, it may easily find application in settling the mining-related legal cases, understanding the longwall mining-related geohazard, and environmental impact assessments.","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84818737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of Scale-Dependent Groundwater/Surface-water Exchange in Rivers by Gradient Self-Potential Logging: Numerical Modeling and Field Experiments","authors":"S. Ikard, M. Briggs, J. Lane","doi":"10.32389/jeeg20-066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg20-066","url":null,"abstract":"Exchanges of groundwater and surface-water are fundamental to a wide range of water-supply and water-quality management issues but challenging to map beyond the reach scale. Waterborne gradient self-potential (SP) measurements are directly sensitive to water flow through riverbed sediments and can be used to infer exchange locations, direction (gain versus loss), scale, and relative changes, but to date applications to river corridor hydrology are limited. Numerical modeling and field experiments were therefore performed herein, each emphasizing waterborne gradient SP logging for identifying and locating focused vertical groundwater discharge (surface-water gain) and recharge (surface-water loss) in a river. Two and three-dimensional numerical models were constructed to simulate the polarities, appearances, and peak amplitudes of streaming-potential and electric-field anomalies on a riverbed and in the surface-water that were attributable to steady-state vertical fluxes of groundwater through high-permeability conduits in the riverbed. Effects of varied hydraulic length-scale of exchange and surface-water depth were tested through numerical modeling. Modeling results aided in data acquisition and interpretation for three repeated field experiments performed along a 1.5–2.0 km reach of the Quashnet River in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where focused, meter-scale groundwater discharges occur at discrete locations within otherwise ubiquitous and more diffuse groundwater upwelling conditions. Strong gradient SP anomalies were repeatedly measured in the Quashnet River at previously confirmed locations of focused groundwater discharge, showing the efficacy of waterborne gradient SP logging in identifying and characterizing groundwater/surface water exchange dynamics at multiple river network scales.","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76511707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deshan Feng, Xun Wang, Huajian Zhang, Yang Jun, Yuan Zhongming, Lujun Zhang, Jie Liu, Bin Zhang
{"title":"Attribute Recognition of Buried Pipes Based on Multi-Trace Phase Features Using K-means Clustering for GPR Data Interpretation","authors":"Deshan Feng, Xun Wang, Huajian Zhang, Yang Jun, Yuan Zhongming, Lujun Zhang, Jie Liu, Bin Zhang","doi":"10.32389/jeeg20-030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg20-030","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate location and depth determination of underground pipes, especially the attribute recognition, are of great importance yet remake a challenging issue in municipal environments. Single-trace phase difference analysis remains a bottleneck due to its inherent and strong randomness in object identification. This paper developed a multi-trace phase difference analysis framework for ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data based on K-means cluster analysis technique and the theory of region of interest (ROI), which could serve as a new criterion for successful pipe attribute recognition. After improving signal-to-noise ratio of GPR data by using the preprocessing techniques, the connected components algorithms (CCA) based on image segmentation and morphological operation is performed to delineate the ROI. The K-means cluster analysis technique is further employed to efficiently extract the multi-trace phase statistical features for comprehensively evaluating the attributes of ROI. We verify this proposed framework by simulated GPR signals, laboratory data and field datasets. Results demonstrate that the proposed method can not only facilitate the attribute recognition of pipes, but also reduce the interpretation ambiguity of the pipe material even in the field site environment. Specifically, if the phase difference of pipe turns out to be even multiples of π, the target can be automatically identified as metallic-category pipes, whereas odd multiples of π, point to non-metallic-category pipes with a lower permittivity than that of the background. This criterion presents promising applicability in subsurface pipeline identification and attributes recognition, especially in constructing a more appropriate initial model of GPR full waveform inversion for survey in pipes.","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88634993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Feng, Jifeng Zhang, Peng-ju Gao, Jie Li, Yang Bai
{"title":"Nonlinear Noise Reduction for the Airborne Transient Electromagnetic Method based on Kernel Minimum Noise Fraction","authors":"B. Feng, Jifeng Zhang, Peng-ju Gao, Jie Li, Yang Bai","doi":"10.32389/jeeg20-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg20-020","url":null,"abstract":"The airborne transient electromagnetic method has become a powerful tool to explore deep resource and tectonic structures. However, aircraft vibrations and flight environments produce very strong and complex nonlinear noise and result in poor data quality compared to ground transient electromagnetic methods. Consequently, the reduction of airborne electromagnetic noises is of vital importance to data inversion and imaging. To suppress and remove the nonlinear noise, we propose using kernel minimum noise fraction (KMNF), which is a nonlinear generalized method of minimum noise fraction. First, an adaptive variable window-width filtering algorithm is used to evaluate the noises and perform the preliminary denoising. Then, we adopt the two filter methods, which are minimum noise fraction (MNF) and KMNF to suppress the noise. The results show that these two methods can both suppress noise and make the decay curves smooth, but kernel MNF is more effective for the nonlinear characteristics of noise and it does not weaken the anomaly. Finally, field data from the Qinling mine area is processed, using the MNF and KMNF methods. The results show that nonlinear noise is suppressed by both methods but the results of KMNF are better than those of the linear MNF method.","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81250677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three-dimensional Time-domain Induced Polarization of a Desert Aridisol for Septic Design","authors":"D. Rucker, W. Walker, Jason W. Greenwood","doi":"10.32389/jeeg21-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg21-005","url":null,"abstract":"Septic leach field design in the arid southwestern US requires direct testing of soils to ensure adequate drainage. We propose that direct testing costs can be reduced if electrical geophysical methods are used to determine soil structure that facilitates proper drainage rates. We demonstrate this concept at a residential site where resistivity and induced polarization data were acquired within a desert soil with variable mixtures of clay (Argid) and calcareous (Orthid) components. Electrode arrays were tested to ensure high data quality and minimal workload during inversion modeling. The resulting resistivity structure identified a sharp boundary between the eastern and western halves of the property. The west was more conductive than the east, which could indicate the presence of higher moisture or higher clay content. Chargeability data gathered from the induced polarization survey showed similar stark patterns between east and west halves of the property. The western portion of the survey area was verified to have some clay based on high chargeability values and direct soil testing from pits. Test pits dug to 3.65 m showed transitions between Argid and Othid conditions; the test pits were in locations of moderate resistivity and low chargeability. From this study, we concluded that resistivity and IP were useful in septic design because they reduce the total amount of direct testing needed when testing locations are carefully chosen based on the geophysical results.","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83827058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhouhan Hu, Yaxun Wang, Maosheng Ye, L. Mei, Ding Junqi
{"title":"Localization of Potential Leakage Areas inside Plain Reservoirs Using Waterborne Electrical Resistivity Tomography","authors":"Zhouhan Hu, Yaxun Wang, Maosheng Ye, L. Mei, Ding Junqi","doi":"10.32389/jeeg20-070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg20-070","url":null,"abstract":"Leakage of reservoirs will not only lead to the waste of water resources, but also cause soil salinization, dam break, and other serious consequences. Leakages may still occur even anti-seepage engineering measures are taken. This study utilized continuous waterborne electrical resistivity tomography to localize potential bottom geomembrane leakage areas in Datun plain reservoir in the east route of South-to-North Water Diversion project. The integrated sensitivity was firstly evaluated to select the optimum electrode array. Four leakage scenarios were numerically simulated and the resulting resistivity distribution patterns were further categorized to identify leakage locations. A total of 33 field survey lines were measured using floating cables over 5 km2 water surface. Robust inversion method was adopted for delineation of geomembrane interface. In the end, we found most of the soil surfaces are still kept under original flat conditions. Based on the abrupt decrease of resistivity from over 120 Ω·m to 80 Ω·m or lower values, two specific sites under the geomembrane with an area of 0.31 km2 potential leakage areas were localized. Even though there are no clearly leakage signs observed from the reservoir water surface, these resistivity results provide important preliminary data to further narrow down the leakage locations.","PeriodicalId":15748,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics","volume":"45 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72447197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}