Applications
Environmental and Engineering
Applications
Geophysical methods have long been applied to oil and gas
exploration. Indeed, 96% of commercial geophysical services
worldwide are performed for the petroleum sectors. In the
recent decade, established geophysical methods as well as
recently developed techniques have found new applications for
problems involving the imaging of the near surface. Much of
this growth has been due to the advancement of
micro-technology, allowing technically complex instrumentation
to be designed as rugged and highly portable units, which are
manufactured at a lower cost.
Typical applications of
engineering and environmental geophysics include:
· Contaminant Mapping
· Landfill Delineation
·
Buried Utilities Detection
· Roadbed and Runway Analysis
· Railway Ballast Investigations
· Pipeline River
Crossings
· Dam Site Investigations
· Fault and
Fracture Zone Delineation
· Slope Stability Investigations
· Aggregate Delineation
· Tunnelling
· Buried
Metals Detection (UST)
· Electrical Grounding Design
·
Muskeg Mapping
· Permafrost Mapping
· Void and Karst
Mapping
· Route & Site Selection
· Rippability of
Bedrock Studies
· Bedrock Topography Mapping
·
Contaminant Migration Pathway Delineation
· Groundwater
Investigations
· Forensic Investigations
· Archaeology
· Mapping of Underground Workings
· Re-bar Imaging and
NDT
· Saltwater Intrusion