Project

Hydrogeophysical characterization of saltwater intrusion in the Southern Central Region, Vietnam

Code
01CD7123
Duration
01 October 2023 → 31 May 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Hydrogeology
    • Geophysics not elsewhere classified
  • Engineering and technology
    • Water resources management
Keywords
Electrical Resistivity Tomography saltwater intrusions petrophysical relationship
 
Project description
Delineating the fresh-saline interface in heterogeneous coastal aquifers is an important but challenging problem, particularly in the presence of discontinuous conductive clay layers. Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) is one of the most efficient geophysical methods to characterize salinity at various scales. To avoid salinity overestimation through direct ERT interpretation, we use a petrophysical relationship to discriminate clay lenses from saline aquifers.