Geophysical characterization and monitoring of subsurface drip irrigation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA

Burke J. Minsley; Bruce D. Smith; Richard Hammack; James I. Sams; Garret Veloski

doi:10.1081/22020586.2010.12041925

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oa Geophysical characterization and monitoring of subsurface drip irrigation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA
Authors Burke J. Minsley^a, Bruce D. Smith^b, Richard Hammack^c, James I. Sams^d and Garret Veloski^e
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^a U.S. Geological Survey Denever, , Colorado, , USA, [email protected] ^b U.S. Geological Survey Denver, , Colorado, , USA, [email protected] ^c National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, , Pennsylvania, , USA, [email protected] ^d National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, , Pennsylvania, , USA, [email protected] ^e National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, , Pennsylvania, , USA, [email protected]
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: ASEG Extended Abstracts, Volume 2010, Issue ASEG2010 - 21st Geophysical Conference, Dec 2010, p. 1 - 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1081/22020586.2010.12041925
- Published online: 01 Dec 2010

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Water that has been co-produced with coal bed methane in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, is being applied to agricultural fields using subsurface drip irrigation (SDI). Ground-based frequency-domain electromagnetic (EM) data are acquired over several fields in order to monitor changes in subsurface electrical properties related to the SDI operations. These data indicate spatial variability in soil properties across the site, as well as a systematic increase in conductivity in one field observed on three repeat surveys carried out over one year.

A quantitative assessment of changes in subsurface properties requires inversion of the EM data to recover the true distribution of electrical resistivity with depth. Data calibration and filtering procedures are presented that correct for systematic and random errors in the data, which results in improved inversion estimates.

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Article Type: Research Article

Keyword(s): electromagnetic; inversion; monitoring; subsurface drip irrigation

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