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A Seismic Processing Approach Dedicated to Quantitative Characterization of Landfill Heterogeneities
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, Near Surface Geoscience 2014 - 20th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Sep 2014, Volume 2014, p.1 - 5
Abstract
SUMMARY
The ability to image and quantify the heterogeneity in municipal landfills is crucial for improving the landfill treatment methods, for predicting the behaviour of processes that take place inside the landfills and hence, for estimating the after-care period. Our aim is to image the flow paths inside landfills and to quantify the heterogeneity. We develop a new methodology using both seismic reflection and electrical resistivity methods. We illustrate the possibility of imaging wet and dry pockets inside a landfill and provide density and porosity distributions that are important input parameters to models that predict the behaviour of landfills.
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