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Investigation of the Geoelectrical Response at the Hydrocarbon-impacted Zone (유류 오염대의 전기적 물성 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Chang-Ryol;Ko, Kyung-Seok;Kim, Jung-Ho
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.225-230
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    • 2007
  • A physical model experiment with GPR and 3-D resisitivity survey were conducted to investigate the geoelectrical response of hydrocarbon-impacted zone, so called smeared zone, on the geophysical data. The results from the experiment show that GPR signals were enhanced when LNAPL was present as a residual saturation in the water saturated system (${\varepsilon}_r$ = 21) due to less attenuation of the electromagnetic energy through the medium, compared to when the medium was saturated with only water (${\varepsilon}_r$ = 21). 3-D resistivity data obtained from the former gas station site demonstrate that the highly contaminated zones could be imaged with low resistivities attributed to the biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons at the aged, hydrocarbon-impacted sites. The study results also show that the geophysical methods, as a non-invasive sounding technique, can be a very useful tool for mapping hydrocarbon-contaminated zones.

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Application of Geophysical Prospecting Method to Calculate Basic Data of Limestone Deposit Production (석회암 매장량 산출의 기초자료 계산을 위한 지구물리탐사법의 적용)

  • 서백수;김영화;진호일
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.131-139
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    • 2001
  • Until recently, limestone yield production is mainly depend on geological investigation and boring. In the study seismic and electrical method are applied to calculate the basic data of limestone yield production. the result of geophysical prospecting, the depth of bed rock is approximately 17m. And there is a slightly difference between the limestone layer boundary which is drawn by electrical prospecting method and that of geological investigation.

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Inversion of Small Loop EM Data by Main-Target Emphasizing Approach (주 대상체 강조법에 의한 소형루프 전자탐사 자료의 역산)

  • Cho, In-Ky;Kang, Mi-Kyung;Kim, Ki-Ju
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.299-303
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    • 2006
  • Geologic noise, especially located at shallow depth, can be a great obstacle in the interpretation of geophysical data. Thus, it is important to suppress geologic noise in order to accurately detect major anomalous bodies in the survey area. In the inversion of geophysical data, model parameters at shallow depth, which have small size and low contrast of physical property, can be regarded as one of geologic noise. The least-squares method with smoothness constraint has been widely used in the inversion of geophysical data. The method imposes a big penalty on the large model parameter, while a small penalty on the small model parameter. Therefore, it is not easy to suppress small anomalous boies. In this study, we developed a new inversion scheme which can effectively suppress geologic noise by imposing a big penalty on the slowly varying model parameter and a small penalty on the largely varying model parameter. We call the method MTE (main-target emphasizing) inversion. Applying the method to the inversion of 2.5D small loop EM data, we can ensure that it is effective in suppressing small anomalous boies and emphasizing major anomalous bodies in the survey area.

지구물리 자료에 대한 XML 기술의 적용

  • O, Seok-Hun;Lee, Deok-Gi;Nam, Jae-Cheol;Yang, Jun-Mo
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.133-142
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    • 2001
  • The rapid expansion of Internet foundation made it possible to handle various data and information with ease and swift. The HTML is widely used in this circumstace to transfer information via Internet. Howeverm the HTML has limit to describe all aspect of data and information, and the XML is proposed for the replacement. The XML is Internet language that supplies more diverse methods to classify and describe the contents. In this stuydy, some advantages to process geophysical data by XML is descussed and teleseismic data recorded in KMA were gransformed to the XML information.

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Applicability of the Small-Loop EM Method in the Sallow Marine Environment (천해 환경에서 소형루프 전자탐사의 적용성)

  • Song, Sung-Ho;Kim, Rae-Young;Kang, Hye-Jin;Cho, In-Ky
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.152-157
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    • 2011
  • The small-loop electromagnetic (EM) method is one of the rapid and non-destructive geophysical methods and has been used widely for many geophysical investigations, particularly for shallow engineering and environmental surveys. Especially in the shallow marine environment, the small-loop EM technique is very effective because of rapid and convenient data acquisition, large signal and low noise level. However, the method has been rarely applied in the very conductive marine environment since it's penetration or investigation depth might be considered too low. In this study, we demonstrated that the small-loop EM method can be effectively applied in the extremely conductive marine environment through the analysis of 1D small-loop EM data. Furthermore, we confirmed that the resistivity distribution under the sea bottom can be quantitatively predicted from the 1D inversion results of synthetic and field data.

Surface Geophysical Survey for Delineation of Weathered Zone of Chojeong Area and Investigation of Fault Fracture Zones (초정지역의 풍화대 조사 및 단층파쇄 지역의 불연속면 조사를 위한 지표물리탐사)

  • Kim, Ji-Soo;Han, Soo-Hyung
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.517-523
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    • 2007
  • Geophysical surveys(seismic refraction, electrical resistivity, and ground penetrating radar) were performed to delineate the weathering zone associated with vadose water in Chojeong area and investigate the fault related fracture zones. On the basis of seismic velocity structures, weathering layer for the southwestern part is interpreted to be deeper than for the northeastern part. The depth to bedrock(i.e., thickness of weathered zone) from seismic refraction data attempted to be correlated with drill-core data and groundwater level. As for the investigation of geological discontinuities such as fault related fracture zone, seismic refraction, electrical resistivity, and ground penetrating data are compositely employed in terms of velocity and resistivity structures for mapping of surface boundary of the discontinuities up to shallow depth. Surface boundaries of fracture zone are well indicated in seismic velocity and electrical resistivity structures. Accurate estimation of weathered zone and fracture zone can be successfully available for mapping of attitude of vadose water layer.

Layered-earth Resistivity Inversion of Small-loop Electromagnetic Survey Data using Particle Swarm Optimization (입자 군집 최적화법을 이용한 소형루프 전자탐사 자료의 층서구조 전기비저항 역해석)

  • Jang, Hangilro
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.186-194
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    • 2019
  • Deterministic optimization, commonly used to find the geophysical inverse solutions, have its limitation that it cannot find the proper solution since it might converge into the local minimum. One of the solutions to this problem is to use global optimization based on a stochastic approach, among which a large number of particle swarm optimization (PSO) applications have been introduced. In this paper, I developed a geophysical inversion algorithm applying PSO method for the layered-earth resistivity inversion of the small-loop electromagnetic (EM) survey data and carried out numerical inversion experiments on synthetic datasets. From the results, it is confirmed that the PSO inversion algorithm could increase the inversion success rate even when attempting the inversion of small-loop EM survey data from which it might be difficult to find a best solution by applying the Gauss-Newton inversion algorithm.

Development of the Water-leakage Detection Method Through the Geophysical Test on the Artificial Ground (모의지반 실험을 통한 누수영역 탐지기술 개발)

  • Kwon, Hyoung-Seok;Mitsuhata, Yuji;Uchida, Toshihiro
    • Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2009
  • A small loop-loop multi-frequency electromagnetic(EM) induction method is a useful technique to map a resistivity distribution efficiently and non-destructively. However, for quantitative interpretation and depth sounding, the quality of measured data is crucial. In this paper, we propose a bias correction of measured data by using background noise measurements to obtain reliable data, and propose an evaluation technique of apparent that can provide a resistivity image easily. We have performed small loop-loop EM measurements to detect water saturation in a man-made test site. The application of our proposed techniques to the measured data was successful.

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