Individual and joint inversion of head and flux data by geostatistical hydraulic tomography

Hydraulic tomography is a state-of-the-art method for inferring hydraulic conductivity fields using head data. We employed geostatistical inversion synthetically generated and flux data individually jointly in steady-state experiment. designed 96 scenarios to better understand the relative merits of each type. For typical case small number observation points, we find that provide resolved field compared when considering with similar signal-to-noise ratios. This finding further confirmed by resolution analysis. When high estimated are quality regardless In terms borehole boundary conditions, best setting constant rate, respectively, while joint results insensitive same observations, does not offer advantages over individual inversions. points and, hence, twice as many performs than The findings this paper useful future planning design tests comprising