Identification of Potential Groundwater Zones Using RS and GIS

Exploration of groundwater resources requires recognition of regions and their potential sources. Because of high importance in the karstic regions and their significant role in providing needed water, efforts to explore new sources of Karst, is inevitable. Checking discontinuities is always an important issue in karst studies. Because of high discontinuities in rock masses, permeable areas will be created , they cause appropriate groundwater paths to flow . Recognition of these regions is possible through geophysical methods based on physical characteristics of these areas such as density or resistivity. Using geophysical methods in water and geotechnical methods has less history to oil field investigations and mining exploration, but has been accelerated in recent years . In this research we have tried to investigate the usage of various geophysical methods, such as how to detect and identify underground water using these methods . We can noted of geophysical applied methods for groundwater potentiometric such as geoelectric methods, ground penetrating radar, electromagnetic, gravitometry, magnetic and seismic surveys

Keywords:

groundwater , geophysics , geoelectrics , gravity GPR