iVES
Geophysical and Geostatistical Software
Landviser, LLC has developed a 1D interpretation software for soil vertical electrical sounding (iVES), which available for FREE download. We also an authorized distributor for a number of special software for interpretation of geophysical surveys such as RES2DINV and RES3DINV, resistivity inversion imaging by GEOTOMO Software (Malaysia); RadExPro, seismic interpretation by DECO Geophysical software company (Russia).
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Sign up for webinar "Application of Geophysical Methods to Agriculture: Methods Employed"
Submitted by landviser on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 19:17- Agriculture
- Farming
- Agrochemistry
- Precision Ag
- Soil Pollution
- Water Pollution
- Reclamation
- Environmental Science
- Geophysics
- Soil Science
- vertical electrical sounding
- LandMapper
- soil EC mapping
- ERM-01
- ERM-02
- GPR
- electrical profiling
- Geophysical equipment
- subsurface imaging
- four-electrode probe
- EC
- site assessment
- ER
- SP
- Geophysical
- iVES
- RES2DINV
- RES3DINV
- resistivity inversion
- freeware
- Ag Geophysics group
- EC
- mapping
- monitoring
- resistivity
- self-potential
Dr. Larisa Golovko (President of Landviser, LLC) will be presenting "Geophysical Methods of Electrical Resistivity and Self-Potential in Agriculture" in first of
Agricultural Geophysics Webinar Series: "Application of Geophysical Methods to Agriculture: Methods Employed"
A live webinar on the application of geophysics to agriculture will be offered on:
Tuesday, February 18, 2014, from 3pm - 4:30pm EST
(2:00 - 3:30 CST, 1:00 - 2:30 MST, 12:00 - 1:30 PST)
This first in a series of agricultural geophysics webinars will focus on the near-surface geophysical methods presently being used for agricultural purposes, which include resistivity, self-potential, electromagnetic induction, ground penetrating radar, dielectric sensors, VIS/NIR/MIR spectrometry, gamma ray spectrometry, mechanical soil compaction sensors, and ion selective potentiometry. Five presenters will provide a short overview of agricultural geophysical methods during the first 30 minutes of the webinar. The last hour of the webinar will be devoted to a panel discussion with the presenters, who will answer questions from the audience.
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Cenozoic Shale Formations as a New Frontier Area - detecting shallow natural gas fields
Submitted by anisimov on Tue, 08/21/2012 - 15:19Guest post by Dr. Leonid Anisimov, Principal Scientist of Lukoil-Engineering, Volgograd, Russia. VolgogradNIPImorneft – scientific center of the LUKOIL Oil Company for the South Volga, Caspian Region and Middle East.
Shalow gas accumulations in shale deposits are unconventional energy resources. However those are hazardous objects for drilling especially in the offshore areas.
Seismic is a principal instrument to detect shallow gas pockets but electromagnetic methods may have advantage. The presentation below shows principal geography and techniques for detection and development of shale gas fields. A pilot project of Landviser LLC in using VES for monitoring accumulation and release of methan in peat bogs of Eastern Siberia is attached.
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1D Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) with LandMapper Procedure
- Agriculture
- Archaeology
- Soil Pollution
- oil and gas
- Civil Engineering
- Environmental Science
- Geology/Mining
- Geophysics
- Hydrology
- Soil Science
- vertical electrical sounding
- LandMapper
- arrays
- ERM-01
- ERM-02
- Schlumberger
- Geophysical equipment
- Geophysical methods
- site assessment
- ER
- Office/Productivity
- Excel
- iVES
- resistivity inversion
- freeware
The technique and procedure described here can be performed with LandMapper ERM-01 or ERM-02 (set in resistivity mode). The electrode spacings provided in this example are identical to Landviser's supplied "big manual VES" cable set made to measure 16 layers of topsoil down to approximately 9 m. The worksheet for pre-set electrode spacings in such cable re-calculating measured resistivities to 1D VES profile can be downloaded as Manual 1D VES workbook (MS Excel format).
Other electrode spacings are possible for custom-made cable arrays to reach deeper profiles. For example, we developed and tested with LandMapper a 60m-long cable, measuring down to ~ 20 m for one custom hydrology project.
This manual VES technique is most convenient to use with three people. Follow step-by-step instructions below. If you need further help, do not hesitate to contact Landviser, LLC @ +1-609-412-0555 or info@landviser.com. Register on our site and download 7 related publications and software!
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Evaluation of stone contents in soils with electrical geophysical methods to aid orchard planning
Submitted by landviser on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 19:08Establishments of orchards and vineyards are long-term and money-intensive, but highly pay-off projects. This study allowed developing procedure for incorporating geophysical survey data into recommendations of usage skeletal soils under orchards. Geophysical methods of electrical resistivity, such as VES and four-electrode profiling provided the information about spatial distributions of stones in skeletal soils. The resistivity of rocks or stones is much higher (about 104-1012 ohm m) than the resistivity of soil horizons with any texture. Therefore, high resistivity will indicate the presence of stones in soil profiles.
Study was conducted on skeletal soils (Paleoxerolls and Lithic Xerorthents) formed on carbonate-cemented marine deposit, limestone, or pebbles of alluvial origin in western part of Crimea Peninsula, Ukraine. The stone content varied from 2 to 90% of fragments coarse than 2 mm by volume and stony layers occurred in soil profiles at the depth as shallow as 12 cm.
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Vertical Electrical Sounding and Self-Potential Methods to Survey for Placement of Potable Water Wells
Submitted by landviser on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 16:15Water is a precious commodity in most urban and rural areas. Luck of local potable water sources threatens not only thriving but a mere survival of rural communities all over the world. Establishing potable water wells requires a lot of fundings and resources and often cost prohibitive for local governments in South America and Africa.
Searching for shallow groundwater require knowledge of subsurface layers and locating intensity and directions of water fluxes, which can be accomplished with geophysical methods of vertical electrical sounding (VES) and self-potential (SP). A method of VES can distinguish differences in electrical resistivity or conductivity at the multiple (10+) layers in soil profiles. These differences reveal the changes in soil texture and structure between water-bearing and waterproof layers, which form a framework for the subsurface water fluxes.
The directions and intensities of the fluxes can then be evaluated with the self-potential method. However, conventional equipment for VES and SP is very expensive, bulky and complicated to operate. We tested a simple low-cost handheld device, LandMapper ERM-02, to evaluate layers in the ground with VES method and results were well correlated with drilled profiles in Central TX. Information is provided for the VES array assembly, field measuring procedure and interpretation of sounding results. Previously, device was used in Astrakhan area, Russia for estimation of the groundwater table and salinity layers in the soil profiles. The method of self-potential was used to estimate subsurface water flux directions and intensities through the measured variation in electrical potential on the soil surface and direct potable wells placement in Kiev, Urkaine and Dmitrov, Russia.

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Electrical Geophysical Methods to Evaluate Soil Pollution from Gas and Oil Mining
Submitted by landviser on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 16:23- Soil Pollution
- oil and gas
- Environmental Science
- Geology/Mining
- Geophysics
- vertical electrical sounding
- LandMapper
- soil EC mapping
- arrays
- ERM-01
- Schlumberger
- electrical profiling
- Geophysical equipment
- four-electrode probe
- Geophysical methods
- site assessment
- ER
- iVES
- resistivity inversion
- natural gas
- oil fields development
- petroleum
Electrical geophysical methods were successfully used for exploration of gas and oil fields (Kalenev, 1970). However, the methods are not widely used for estimation of the soil pollution with petroleum products (Znamensky, 1980; Pozdnyakov et al., 1996a). The possibility of using the methods of electrical resistivity to evaluate the places of petroleum pollution or natural petroleum and gas deposits is based on highly different resistivities of soil and petroleum products. Petroleum and various products of petroleum manufacture, such as oil, gasoline, bitumen, and kerosene have very high electrical resistivity compared with soils. Electrical resistivity of petroleum varies from 104 to 1019 ohm m (Fedinsky, 1967), whereas resistivity of petroleum-saturated sand is much lower (2200 ohm m) (Znamensky, 1980), but is still higher than that of any non-polluted soil.
Soil pollution by the products of gas and petroleum mining was studied near Urengoi in northwest Siberia, Russia. The virgin soils, Glacic and Aquic Haplorthels, were extremely polluted with various by-products of petroleum extraction and manufacturing, such as bitumen, gasoline, kerosene, and mining brine solutions. The study area was thoroughly investigated with four-electrode profiling on 1.2-m array and vertical electrical sounding.
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