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Surface and airborne geophysical methods can be a valuable element of aquifer characterization programs because they typically are less expensive and can be performed quicker than methods that require the drilling of boreholes, which allow a larger number of measurements and thus greater spatial coverage.

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Maliva, R.G. (2016). Surface and Airborne Geophysics. In: Aquifer Characterization Techniques. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32137-0_11

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