NS015
Near-Surface Geophysics for Anthropogenic and Environmental Targets eLightning

Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 16:00-17:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Isabel Mae Morris, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Socorro, NM, United States
Conveners:  Philippe De Smedt, Ghent University, Department of Environment, Gent, Belgium and Sajad Jazayeri, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Isabel Mae Morris, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Socorro, NM, United States
Chairs:  Isabel Mae Morris, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Philippe De Smedt, Ghent University, Department of Environment, Gent, Belgium and Sajad Jazayeri, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Philippe De Smedt, Ghent University, Department of Environment, Gent, Belgium
16:00
Welcoming Remarks
16:01
Enhanced ground-penetrating radar data analysis through multi-trace coherence imaging (Invited) (668577)
Immo Trinks1,2, Alexander Bornik2 and Alois Hinterleitner2,3, (1)University of Vienna, Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, Vienna, Austria, (2)Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, Vienna, Austria, (3)Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Vienna, Austria
16:04
A Comparative Assessment of Machine Learning Techniques for UXO Detection using Geophysical Sensors (671821)
Heidi Patricia Myers, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States and Daniel Perry Lathrop, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
16:07
Evaluating the utility of electrical resistivity tomography in the presence of metallic infrastructure (674257)
Judy Robinson1, Tim C Johnson1, Rob Mackley1, Jonathan N Thomle1 and Vicky L Freedman2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
16:10
Towards a quantitative description of forensic anomaly - a numerical and field study using magnetometry to detect buried weapons (676902)
Kennedy O Doro, University of Toledo, Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States, Elijah Achuoth Deng, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and Carl-Georg Bank, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
16:13
Separating Target Response from Surface Feature Ringing with Eigenimage Filtering and Sparse Blind Deconvolution (Invited) (677069)
Christine M Downs and Sajad Jazayeri, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
16:16
Numerical Simulation of Underground Pipeline Detection Based on Ground Penetrating Radar with Array Antenna (677627)
QiYing Liu, Yonghui Zhao and Xuan Wang, Tongji University, School of Ocean & Earth Science, Shanghai, China
16:19
Geophysical Prospection of Yachay Archaeological Sites (Imbabura, Ecuador) to Improve Recovery of Ecuadorian Cultural Heritage (678469)
Sebastian Gallegos, Yachay Tech University, Imbabura, Ecuador and Elisa J Piispa, Yachay Tech University, School of Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment, Imbabura, Ecuador
16:22
Seasonal variations of subsurface humidity around a water storage pool in rural Ecuador assessed with electrical resistivity and ground-penetrating radar (678879)
Maria Emilia Arteaga, Hancock, Michigan, United States, Gustavo Bejar, Michigan Technological University, Department of Geology, Houghton, MI, United States, Celine Mandon, Yachay Tech University, School of Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment, Urcuqui, Ecuador, Eva Maria Sutter, Cook Costello, Christchurch, New Zealand, Elisa J Piispa, Yachay Tech University, School of Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment, Imbabura, Ecuador and Teresa del Rocio Muñoz, EPMAPS, Gerencia del Ambiente, Quito, Ecuador
16:25
Utilizing Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to Detect Paleontological Features in Ash Beds (684987)
Michelle Proulx1, Georgios P Tsoflias1 and Blair Schneider2, (1)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Center for STEM Learning; Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
16:28
Spontaneous Potential Measurements with Electrodes in Surface Waters (709278)
Samuel L Butler, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Jim Blyth Merriam, Univ Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Rafael Gonzalez, University of Saskatchewan, Geological Sciences, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
16:31
Characteristics of airplane-induced ground motion recorded by three-component(3-C) geophone and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) in cities (719750)
Gang Fang1, Yunyue Li1, Tieyuan Zhu2 and Ohad Barak3, (1)National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Mentor Graphics, San Jose, CA, United States
16:34
Advancements in distributed near surface imaging, an application of multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) (735433)
Ariana David1, Anna Stork1, Antony Butcher2, Giulio Curioni3, Valerie Ouellet4, Stefan Krause3 and Athena Chalari1, (1)Silixa Ltd., Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (3)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (4)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
16:37
Seismo-acoustic Vector Detection and Tracking of Ground Vehicles (737270)
Joydeep Bhattacharyya and Stephen M Tenney, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States
16:40
Discussion