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CONTENTS<br />

CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................. 3<br />

GLOSSARY ............................................................................................................................................. 7<br />

1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 15<br />

WHY AND HOW THIS DOCUMENT WAS CREATED ................................................................................. 15<br />

STRUCTURE OF THIS DOCUMENT ......................................................................................................... 16<br />

OTHER USEFUL DOCUMENTS................................................................................................................ 17<br />

A CLASSIFICATION OF TECHNIQUES..................................................................................................... 17<br />

WHAT IS ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY ............................................................................................... 18<br />

APPARENT (OR BULK) ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY (OR RESISTIVITY) ................................................ 19<br />

WHY MEASURE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY FOR GROUNDWATER RESOURCE EVALUATION ............ 20<br />

SOME NEW APPROACHES ..................................................................................................................... 22<br />

2. SURVEY PLANNING AND INTERPRETATION ....................................................................... 23<br />

DEVICE SELECTION PROCEDURE.......................................................................................................... 23<br />

Does your ground property correlate with a geophysical property............................................ 23<br />

Do o<strong>the</strong>r ground properties also relate to <strong>the</strong> selected geophysical property ............................ 23<br />

What horizontal resolution is needed .......................................................................................... 24<br />

What depth range must be sampled ............................................................................................. 24<br />

What depth resolution is necessary .............................................................................................25<br />

What ambiguity will need ground truthing.................................................................................. 25<br />

What effect will metal objects have.............................................................................................. 26<br />

What case studies and modelling are relevant ............................................................................ 27<br />

Price ............................................................................................................................................... 27<br />

What processing will be needed................................................................................................... 28<br />

Public relations and commercial influences.................................................................................. 28<br />

Fur<strong>the</strong>r notes on modelling............................................................................................................ 29<br />

SURVEY DESIGN................................................................................................................................... 30<br />

Choice of survey path..................................................................................................................... 30<br />

Positioning ..................................................................................................................................... 30<br />

SURVEY INTERPRETATION ................................................................................................................... 31<br />

Geophysical trans<strong>for</strong>mations......................................................................................................... 31<br />

Identifying models that match field data........................................................................................32<br />

Data cleaning................................................................................................................................. 34<br />

Ground truthing (‘calibration’) and regression ............................................................................ 34<br />

Gridding and image processing..................................................................................................... 36<br />

Final assessment of geophysical data............................................................................................36<br />

3. GROUND FREQUENCY DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS................................ 37<br />

BASICS................................................................................................................................................. 37<br />

HOW DO FDEM DEVICES WORK ........................................................................................................ 39<br />

FDEM DEVICES................................................................................................................................... 42<br />

FDEM CALIBRATION .......................................................................................................................... 42<br />

FDEM CONFIGURATIONS AND DEPTH SENSITIVITIES........................................................................... 43<br />

FDEM INSTRUMENT DETAILS.............................................................................................................. 48<br />

Apex Parametrics Max Min ........................................................................................................... 48<br />

DUALEM 1, 1s, 2, 2s, 4, 4s, 2/4, 2+4s and 1+2+4s ..................................................................... 48<br />

Geonics EM31-Mk2, EM31-Sh ...................................................................................................... 51<br />

Geonics EM31-multi ...................................................................................................................... 52<br />

Geonics EM34-3, EM34-3XL......................................................................................................... 53<br />

Geonics EM38DD.......................................................................................................................... 54<br />

Geophex ......................................................................................................................................... 55<br />

GEOPHYSICS FOR THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY<br />

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