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Capacitively-coupled Resistivity Method - Applicability and Limitation  

Lee Seong Kon (Geophysical Exploration and Mining Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Cho Seong-Jun (Geophysical Exploration and Mining Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Song Yoonho (Geophysical Exploration and Mining Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Chung Seung-Hwan (Geophysical Exploration and Mining Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.5, no.1, 2002 , pp. 23-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
Capacitively-coupled resistivity (CCR) system is known to be very useful where galvanic contact to earth is impossible, such as the area covered with thick ice, snow, concrete or asphalt. This system injects current non-galvanically, i.e., capacitively to earth through line antenna and measures potential difference in a same manner. We derived geometric factor for two types of antenna configuration and presented the method of processing and converting the data obtained with CCR system suitable to conventional resistivity inversion analysis. The CCR system, however, has limitations on use at conductive area or electrically noisy area since it is very difficult to inject sufficient current to earth with this system as with conventional resistivity system. This causes low SM ratio when acquiring data with CCR system and great care must be taken in acquiring data with this system. Additionally the uniform contact between line antennas and earth is also crucial factor to obtain good S/N ratio data. The CCR method, however, enables one to perform continuous profiling over a survey line by dragging entire system and thus will be useful in rapid investigation of conductivity distribution in shallow subsurface.
Keywords
capacitively-coupled resistivity (CCR); geometric factor; continuous profiling; S/N ratio; data acquisition;
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