Week 1: Introduction to geophysical methods: Scope and application of different methods; Planning, implementation and interpretation of geophysical investigations;
Week 2: Applications in geotechnical, environmental and groundwater investigations; Parameters measured and their relation to the property of the medium;
Week 3: Electrical methods: resistivity methods, principle, vertical electrical sounding, profiling, Self-potential methods, Induced polarisation methods;
Week 4: Electromagnetic methods; Ground-based and air-based methods; case studies;
Week 5: 3 D sounding, inverse methods, earthen embankment seepage, case studies and applications;
Week 6: Seismic methods: Principle, travel velocity in various geological formations;Seismic field operation on land, refraction and reflection survey, seismic inversion;
Week 7: Determination of thickness, attitude and depth of formations, cross-hole seismic methods, assessment of ground improvement; case studies
Week 8: Gravity methods: Gravimeters, corrections, interpretation of gravity data;
Week 9: Gravity recovery and climate change experiment, applications;
Week 10: Magnetic methods: Components of magnetic field; Magnetometers;corrections, qualitative interpretation; applications
Week 11: Ground penetrating radar methods; Synthetic aperture radar imaging for land deformation studies; Other emerging methods: Surface nuclear magnetic resonance methods;
Week 12: Radioactivity methods and Well logging; Electrical and radioactivity logging methods, calliper and other miscellaneous logging methods; field procedure and interpretation of data;
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