Université de Fribourg

Quantitative imaging of water, ice and air in permafrost systems through petrophysical joint inversion of seismic refraction and electrical resistivity data

Wagner, Florian ; Mollaret, Coline ; Günther, Thomas ; Kemna, Andreas

In: Geophysical Journal International, 2019, vol. 219, no. 3, p. 1866–1875

Quantitative estimation of pore fractions filled with liquid water, ice and air is crucial for a process-based understanding of permafrost and its hazard potential upon climate- induced degradation. Geophysical methods offer opportunities to image distributions of permafrost constituents in a non-invasive manner. We present a method to jointly estimate the volumetric fractions of liquid water,...