Application of Geophysical Methods for Hydrogeology—Second Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The characterization of the subsoil and its hydraulic properties is essential for groundwater and surface water management, but it is often difficult to evaluate from traditional borehole drilling, water well and piezometer pumping tests, and soil sampling techniques. Traditional soil sampling methods typically provide only data from the upper layers, and boreholes are expensive and only provide spotty information. The integration of geophysical data with direct hydrogeological measurements is a challenging issue that could help to characterize, monitor, and investigate hydrological parameters and processes in the shallow subsurface at a variety of resolutions and over many spatial scales in a minimally invasive manner.

This Special Issue of Water aims to gather research on advances and obstacles associated with using geophysical methods, with a special focus on case studies demonstrating their potential to improve our understanding of subsurface hydrogeological parameters and processes. Papers on novel data acquisition procedures and innovative hydrogeological mapping, hydrological parameter estimation, and monitoring of hydrological processes are welcome to be submitted. Papers focused on the integration of geophysical and hydrogeological measurements and petrographic relationships will also be appreciated.

Dr. Alex Sendros
Prof. Dr. María del Carmen Cabrera Santana
Prof. Dr. Albert Casas Ponsati
Guest Editors

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