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The impact of multiple transmitters on DERT dataset: an experiment in the Vajont valley (Italy)

The impact of multiple transmitters on signal strength in Deep Electrical Resistivity Tomography data: an experiment in the Vajont valley (north-eastern Italy)
Bulletin of Geophysics and Oceanography
| 2021-12 | Journal article | DOI: 10.1029/2022JB024040

layuot of Vajont's landslide experiment

A resistivity survey with small multi-transmitter devices was tested in the Vajont valley, in north-eastern Italy, with the purpose of imaging the deep sliding surface of the catastrophic landslide occurred in 1963. The waveform of induced potentials was clearly recognisable up to a distance of more than 1 km in single transmitter mode, while using multiple transmittes the threshold distance is probably far beyond and it was not reached. A potential of 0.02 mV was identified as the detection threshold.

Credits
OGS, University of Parma.