First Break - Volume 31, Issue 8, 2013

Jan Igel, Holger Preetz, Kazunori Takahashi, and Markus Loewer review current mine detection technology and suggest a database plus maps of electromagnetic soil properties to overcome some of the current soil obstacles to better demining.

Jürgen Miethe and Karl-Heinz Nitsch tell the story of how geomagnetic measurements were used to identify and remove a bulldozer hampering open cast mining operations near Welzow, Germany.

Hendrik Paasche, Michael Rumpf, Jörg Hausmann, Thomas Fechner, Ulrike Werban, Jens Tronicke and Peter Dietrich highlight recent projects where technology advances are improving the use of near-surface seismic tomography to support geotechnical site assessment.

U. Polom, M. Bagge, S. Wadas, J. Winsemann, C. Brandes, F. Binot and C.M. Krawczyk review the imaging capabilities, restrictions, and challenges of the shallow shear-wave reflection seismic method using a land streamer combined with a micro-vibrator for the investigation of small depocentres in three difference contexts.

Sabrina Rothmund, Uwe Niethammer, Jean-Philippe Malet and Manfred Joswig explore the potential power, as well as the limitations of 3D photogrammetric point clouds by SfM-MVS for landslide monitoring using the Super-Sauze landslide in the southern French Alps as a case study.

Thomas Schicht, Benjamin Wieser and Anne Allendorf-Schicht report on the solution to determining the brine content of the geology in a northern Peru desert setting.

Benjamin Sick, Marco Walter and Manfred Joswig describe how a hybrid approach combining dedicated sonogram screening software and human inspection can detect sought-after low SNR signals in landslide and sinkhole monitoring.

Jens Tronicke and Urs Böniger discuss how attribute analysis is emerging as a valuable technique for analyzing and interpreting ground-penetrating radar data.

Helga Wiederhold, Hans Sulzbacher, Michael Grinat, Thomas Günther, Jan Igel, Thomas Burschil and Bernhard Siemon show that a complex system such as the freshwater lens of Borkum Island, requires numerous different data sets to model the spatial and temporal distribution of aquifer parameters.