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Introduction

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In this chapter, we present a short review of the literature and a brief introduction to resistivity sounding methods and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT). We recall the very origin of that method and the most influential research in this field. Several advantages of the method and its relations with mathematical modeling, the boundary element method (BEM), and the theory of inverse problems are discussed.

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    Balgaisha Mukanova

  2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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Mukanova, B., Modin, I. (2018). Introduction. In: The Boundary Element Method in Geophysical Survey. Innovation and Discovery in Russian Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72908-4_1

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