In the past, conventional reflection seismic techniques were not very successful when applied to typical mining exploration:They lacked resolution in the shallow range or were not cost effective. By combining a light earth tamper source, special geophones and field procedures, a stacking process of the returning seismic events using a microprocessor…
This book was first published in French in 2006 by the Presses polytechnique et universi• taires romande (PPUR). In 2010 a new edition of the French version was published. This new version was published by CRC Press and translated into English by Patricia Bobeck. In 2017, CRC press asked me to write a new edit…