Author Archives: Laurent Longuevergne

IGN : Chargé de recherche 2ème classe du Développement Durable en Géodésie Physique

Contexte : L’IGN prépare l’évolution de la réalisation de la référence verticale française, dans une optique de réduction des coûts de maintenance des réseaux matérialisés (réseau de nivellement : 400000 repères) et d’amélioration du service aux usagers (accès à l’altitude réglementaire par GNSS). Il apparaît la nécessité de doter la France d’une meilleure estimation de la surface de référence des […]

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Conférence Goldschmidt : cette année à Paris!

La conférence Goldschmidt est la plus importante conférence internationale organisée par l’Association Européenne de Géochimie et la Société de Géochimie. L’édition 2017 aura lieu à Paris du 13 au 18 aout 2017. Plus de 3600 résumés sont attendus, avec plus de 4000 participants. Une session dédiée à l’environnement est prévue. More information: https://goldschmidt.info/2017/index Biogeochemistry is dynamic and involves cycling or […]

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3ème Workshop sur l’Hydrogéophysique AGU-SEG : Imager de la Zone Critique

 Le 3ème worksjop d’hydrogéophysique de l’AGU et la SEG – imager la Zone Critique – aura lieu à Stanford, California du 24 au 27 juillet 2017. Dans ce workshop, les organisateurs proposent de développer un cadre pour faire avancer à la fois l’hydrogéophysique et les recherches sur la Zone Critique, par une coordination des agendas. Les méthodes d’hydrogéophysique permettront de […]

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Journées CRITEX, cette année à Grenoble !

Le meeting annuel de l’Equipex CRITEX (Parc national d’équipements innovants pour l’étude spatiale et temporelle de la Zone Critique des Bassins Versants), aura lieu à Grenoble les 10, 11 et 12 mai 2017. Après les Journées de Rennes en 2016, les Journées CRITEX 2017 permettront de faire le point sur les sites instrumentés et de consolider les liens entre les […]

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Presentation of a Complex Permittivity-Meter with Applications for Sensing the Moisture and Salinity of a Porous Media

Papers - Publications scientifiques

This paper describes a sensor dedicated to measuring the vertical profile of the complex permittivity and the temperature of any medium in which sensor electrodes are inserted. Potential applications are the estimate of the humidity and salinity in a porous medium, such as a soil. It consists of vertically-stacked capacitors along two conductive parallel cylinders of 5 cm in diameter and at a 10-cm […]

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Hydrogeophysical characterization of transport processes in fractured rock by combining push-pull and single-hole ground penetrating radar experiments

The in situ characterization of transport processes in fractured media is particularly challenging due to the considerable spatial uncertainty on tracer pathways and dominant controlling processes, such as dispersion, channeling, trapping, matrix diffusion, ambient and density driven flows. We attempted to reduce this uncertainty by coupling push-pull tracer experiments with single-hole ground penetrating radar (GPR) time-lapse imaging. The experiments involved different injection fractures, chaser […]

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Active-Distributed Temperature Sensing to continuously quantify vertical flow in boreholes

We show how a distributed borehole flowmeter can be created from armored Fiber Optic cables with the Active-Distributed Temperature Sensing (A-DTS) method. The principle is that in a flowing fluid, the difference in temperature between a heated and unheated cable is a function of the fluid velocity. We outline the physical basis of the methodology and report on the deployment […]

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Detecting different water table levels in a shallow aquifer with combined P-, surface and SH-wave surveys: Insights from VP/VS or Poisson’s ratios

When applied to hydrogeology, seismicmethods are generally confined to the characterisation of aquifer geometry. The joint study of pressure- (P) and shear- (S) wave velocities (VP and VS) can provide supplementary information and improve the understanding of aquifer systems. This approach is proposed here with the estimation of VP/VS ratios in a stratified aquifer system characterised by tabular layers, well-delineated […]

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Inversion of generalized relaxation time distributions with optimized damping parameter

Retrieving the Relaxation Time Distribution (RDT), the Grains Size Distribution (GSD) or the Pore Size Distribution (PSD) from low-frequency impedance spectra is a major goal in geophysics. The “Generalized RTD” generalizes parametric models like Cole–Cole and many others, but remains tricky to invert since this inverse problem is ill-posed. We propose to use generalized relaxation basis function (for instance by […]

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Interpretation of magnetic resonance measurements in the varying earth’s magnetic field

At the scale of a magnetic resonance sounding (MRS) field setup, the earth’s magnetic field in the subsurface may vary laterally with depth and over time. These variations can be caused by different natural factors and generally cannot be compensated for by accurate tuning of the measuring device. The varying geomagnetic field (GMF) causes non resonance conditions of excitation that affect the amplitude and phase of […]

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