Graphical User Interface for Interpreting and Validating Soil Resistivity Measurements

Author

Lagace, P.J. ; Vuong, M.H.

Author_Institution

Ecole de Technol. Superieure

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

9-13 July 2006

Firstpage

1841

Lastpage

1845

Abstract

This paper presents a method for the estimation of soil parameters in the case of a multilayered horizontal soil. The method is used in education for the interpretation of resistivity sounding measurements of a stratified soil. A graphical interface is utilized and allows the users to interact during geophysical inversion and provides feedback in the form of apparent resistivity curves along with information on the progression of the process. This paper demonstrates the use of an interactive tool for the interpretation of resistivity sounding. Interpretation of measurements is done by minimizing the quadratic, relative or logarithmic distance between the measured and the calculated resistivities

Keywords

earthing; electrical resistivity; graphical user interfaces; power engineering computing; graphical user interface; logarithmic distance; multilayered horizontal soil; resistivity curves; resistivity sounding measurements; soil parameter estimation; soil resistivity measurements; Conductivity measurement; Conductors; Electrodes; Geophysical measurements; Graphical user interfaces; Grounding; Power system analysis computing; Power system protection; Soil measurements; Voltage; Grounding; Marquardt method; Newton method; Wenner method; geophysical inversion; resistivity measurements; resistivity sounding; soil resistivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0496-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0497-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2006.295852

Filename

4078527