- Docente: Silvia Castellaro
- Credits: 8
- SSD: GEO/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geology for Sustainable Development (cod. 6050)
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from Sep 30, 2024 to Jan 15, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student knows the principles at the basis of the most recent geophysical exploration techniques and of the numerical methods to model some physical behaviors of the subsoil. The student knows the fundamentals of: - analog and digital signal processing in the time and frequency domain, - seismic surface wave-based methods - methods based on the dynamic characterization of the subsoil - electrical and electromagnetic methods. The student is capable to apply these methos to stratigraphic exploration at different scales and to characterize the dynamic behavior (e.g. seismic response) of the subsoil. The student is capable to design multi-method surveys as a function of the different goals of the geophysical exploration.
Course contents
ELEMENTS OF SIGNAL THEORY (analog and digital signals, time and frequency domain, cross-correlation and convolution, FFT, filters).
APPLIED SEISMOLOGY (surface-wave based methods, numerical site-effect assessment, soil-structure interaction)
ELECTRICAL METHODS
MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS
Field surveys to experiment all the studied methods
Readings/Bibliography
INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Burger, Sheehan, Jones, Norton, 2006, 600 p. + CD
NEAR SURFACE APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, M.E. Everett, Cambridge, 2013, 400 p.
Altre letture:
AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION, Kearey, Brooks, Hill, Blackwell Publ., 2002, 262 p.
I METODI GEOELETTRICO E SISMICO PER LE INDAGINI SUPERFICIALI DEL SOTTOSUOLO, Carrara, Rapolla, Roberti, Liguori ed., 2012, 295 p.
ESPLORAZIONE GEOFISICA DEL SOTTOSUOLO, Musset, Aftab Khan, Zanichelli, 2003, 420 p.
Assessment methods
Written test (3 exercises) and oral test
Office hoursOffice hours
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