DCIP2D package

DCIP2D is a program library for carrying out forward modelling and inversion of surface and borehole DC resistivity and IP data in 2.5D. The contents of this manual are as follows:

• 1. Package overview
  • 1.1. Background
  • 1.2.  capabilities and limitations
  • 1.3.  program library content
• 2. Theoretical background
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Forward modelling
  • 2.3. General inversion methodology
  • 2.4. Inversion of DC data
  • 2.5. Inversion of IP data
• 3. Elements of the program DCIP2D
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. General files for  programs
• 4. Running the programs
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. DCIPF2D
  • 4.3. DCINV2D
  • 4.4. IPINV2D
• 5. Workflow
  • 5.1. Understanding the data
  • 5.2. Accumulating prior information; building a reference model
  • 5.3. Discretizing the Earth
  • 5.4. Assigning uncertainties
  • 5.5. Selection of model objective function
  • 5.6. Evaluation of the results
• 6. Examples
  • 6.1. Forward Model
  • 6.2. Inversion of the DC forward model
  • 6.3. Inversion of the IP forward model
  • 6.4. Large dataset example
  • 6.5. Borehole example
  • 6.6. Field example
• 7. References