Structural 2-D Inversion of Resistivity Data

P013 STRUCTURAL 2-D INVERSION OF RESISTIVITY DATA P.J. PUJARI 1 W.P.H. KNOOPS 2 P.V. DITMAR 3 AND J.W. BREDEWOUT 4 1 1 National Environmental Engineering Research Institude Nagpur-440 020 India 2 Geocom-Sialtech 3 Delft University 4 Utrecht University Summary An algorithm has been developed for structural inversion of 2-D resisitivity image profiling (RIP) data obtained over a layered subsurface. Contrary to smooth inversion our algorithm aims at inversion for the geometry of the model when the properties (layer resistivities) are known a priori. In smooth inversion the result is a model of the subsurface in which the resistivity varies continuously