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Access to clean and reliable water sources is limited in many developing countries, with serious health, environmental, and economic consequences. Climate change exacerbates the issue, with more frequent and severe droughts and floods. Groundwater is a potential source of water, but unsustainable usage leads to depletion. Geophysical methods, such as transient electromagnetic (TEM) surveys, have been used to locate and map groundwater resources. However, traditional ground-based TEM instruments are complex and expensive, requiring trained operators and cumbersome data processing.

We introduce a new ground-based TEM instrument called sTEM, which is designed to be easy-to-use for non-experts. This cost-effective and modern alternative can be particularly beneficial in the developing world for well-siting and mapping hydrogeology. The sTEM instrument also has applications in the developed world for infill in large regional scale surveys and mapping saline groundwater. The abstract provides an overview of the technical specifications of the sTEM instrument, with field examples and comparisons with other data types to be presented in the conference.

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2023-09-03
2026-01-16

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A New Light Weight and Easy-to-Use Transient Electromagnetic Instrument for Subsurface Characterization: sTEM
Conference Proceedings 2023, 1 (2023); https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202320136
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