Archaeological investigation by electrical resistivity tomography: a preliminary study

b This paper describes a method in which vertical resistivity sections are generated tomographically from measurements on a linear array of equally spaced electrodes inserted at the ground surface. The array is multiplexed to a resistivity meter which gathers one set of all possible independent apparent resistivity measurements and the geophysical section is then reconstructed by backprojecting these weighted data, along equipotentials, into the subsurface. The technique has been evaluated numerically and in field trials over shallow archaeological structures at Fountains Abbey.

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