Overview
- Provides the latest developments in near-surface geophysical techniques and new interpretation theory
- Elucidates various aspects of advances in modelling and inversion in near-surface geophysics
- Presents important aspects and applications related to various recent field investigations
Part of the book series: Springer Geophysics (SPRINGERGEOPHYS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book is specifically aimed with the state-of-art information regarding research advances and new developments in these areas of study, coupled to extensive modeling and field investigations obtained from around the world. It is extremely enlightening for the research workers, scientists, faculty members and students, in Applied Geophysics, Near Surface Geophysics, Potential Field, Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods, Mathematical Modeling Techniques in Earth Sciences, as well as Environmental Geophysics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. Hereceived his B.Sc. (2002) in Geology
from Presidency College, University of Calcutta, M.Sc. (2004) in Geological Science,
M.Tech (2006) in Earth and Environmental Science from IIT Kharagpur, P. G. Diploma (2009)
in Petroleum Exploration from Annamalai University. He joined Geostar Surveys India Pvt.
Ltd as a Geophysicist in 2006 and later joined WesternGeco Electromagnetics, Schlumberger
as an On Board Data Processing Field Engineer/Geophysicist in 2007 and served there till
2008. In 2013 he received his Ph.D. in Exploration Geophysics from IIT Kharagpur. Later,
he joined the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research Bhopal as a Visiting Faculty in 2014 andcompleted his tenure in
2015. He again joined Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) Dehradun in 2016 as
Research Associate and later he joined BHU on October 2017.His main Research Interest
includes Near Surface Geophysics, Integrated Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods,
Geophysical Inversion, Mineral and Groundwater Exploration and Subsurface contamination.
He has published several papers on theoretical modeling, inversion and application in
practical geoscience problems in peer-reviewed international, national journals and book chapters. He is also a Life member of Indian Geophysical Union and an Active member of
SEG (USA). He is also an Associate Editor of Journal of Earth System Sciences, Springer
and reviewer of many international journals.
Shashi Prakash Sharma is a Professor at the Department of Geology and Geophysics,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He graduated (1988) from Banaras
Hindu University, Varanasi, and received a Ph.D. (1994) from the National Geophysical
Research Institute, Hyderabad, India. He worked in the Rajasthan Groundwater Department
from 1994 to 1996 and Oulu University, Finland, from 1996 to 1999 before joining IIT
Kharagpur at 1999. His research interests include electrical and electromagnetic
geophysics, joint inversion, global optimization, VLF Electromagnetics, integrated
interpretation, and groundwater and mineral exploration. He received the Marie Curie
fellowship for advanced research 2008–2009 at EotvosLorand Geophysical Research
Institute, Budapest, Hungary. He was visiting Professor at University of Hokkaido,
Japan in 2015. He is also active as editorial board member of national journals and
reviewer of some international journals. He has published numerous papers on theoretical
modeling, inversion and application in practical Geoscience problems in peer-reviewed
international, national journals and book chapters. Till date, 7 students have been
awarded PhD degrees under his supervision.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Modeling and Interpretation in Near Surface Geophysics
Editors: Arkoprovo Biswas, Shashi Prakash Sharma
Series Title: Springer Geophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28909-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28908-9Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28911-9Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28909-6Published: 01 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2364-9119
Series E-ISSN: 2364-9127
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 414
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 142 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy