Innovation in Near-Surface Geophysics

Dr. Raffaele Persico is a research scientist at the Institute for Archaeological and Monumental Heritage IBAM-CNR and is fellow professor in probability and statistics at the International Telematic University Uninettuno UTIU. His main interests are noninvasive prospecting applied to cultural heritage, inversion approaches applied to GPR data, reconfigurable stepped frequency GPR systems, and TDR probes. He chaired the 13th International GPR Conference in 2010 and was publication chair of the 15th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium in 2015. He is president of the Italian Association of the GPR (www.gpritalia.it). Dr. Salvatore Piro is a research director in the Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage. From 2012 until present, he has been a professor of applied geophysics at the Earth Science Department of Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include the acquisition and processing of integrated geophysical methods for near surface investigations. He is a member of SEG, EAGE, Near Surface Geophysics, EGU, EEGS, and ISAP. He is also Associate Editor of the journals Near Surface Geophysics, Archaeological Prospection, International Journal of Geophysics, and Journal of Archaeology. Dr. Neil Linford is the senior geophysicist within Historic England’s Geophysics Team and provides advice on the use of geophysical methods within the historic environment, including field survey and application to standing buildings. His research interests include the use of multichannel ground penetrating radar, environmental magnetism, and high-sensitivity cesium magnetometer surveys, and he is currently an editor of the journal Archaeological Prospection.

• 1. Passive and active electrical methods: New frontiers of application2. Advances in electrical resistivity tomography: Theory and case studies3. TDR methodology for the measure of magnetic properties of materials at radio frequencies4. In situ XRF spectrometry: A geochemical complement the geophysical field survey of an aircraft crash site5. Advanced magnetic prospecting with vehicle towed array and solid Cs magnetometers6. Making sense of anomalies: Practices and challenges in the archaeological interpretation of geophysical data7. Efficiency of the magnetic method in surveying desert sites in Egypt and Sudan: Case studies8. Step Frequency Continuous Waveform (SFCW) GPR systems9. Putting it all together: Geophysical data, integration10. Ground Penetrating Radar for the evaluation and monitoring of transport infrastructures11. THz imaging and data processing: state of art and perspective12. Ambient noise techniques to study near-surface in particular geological conditions: A brief review13. Multimethodological approach to investigate urban and suburban archaeological sites