Yarwun Tailings Storage Facility
SkyTEM Surveys' Australian partner, GroundProbe, conducted an airborne suvery for Rio Tinto Alcan to assess current and potential impacts of planned expansions to its Yarwun Tailngs Storage Facility (TSF). Using the unique high-resolution and calibr...
Exploration of buried valleys / paleochannels
Setting Denmark is a world leader in mapping groundwater resources. In the 1990s in order to locate and protect the country's natural resources the Danish Government embanked on the ambitious plan to map the subsurface of the entire country. The Danis...
Mapping salinity
The Danish Hydrology Research Center, HOBE wanted to balance the water budget calculations of a catchment area. They suspected the aquifer was discharging into a lagoon via a buried channel and investigated the area to determine the channel’s significance in submarine groundwater discharge (SGD).
Mapping fresh water and saltwater encroachment
Setting: The Galapagos Island of Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz supports 13,000 inhabitants and 120,000 annual visitors and there is very little evidence of groundwater on the island. Drilling restrictions and challenging terrain prevent traditional hydrogeol...
Environmental assessment pollution plume related to groundwater in Ribe, Denmark
From 1956 until 1973, untreated wastewater from a chemical plant was dumped into 6 pits in a plantation in the south-western part of Jutland, Denmark 0.5-1.0 km from the coastline. Today, it is one of the worst pollution scenarios in Denmark with high concentrations of e.g. chlorinated organic solvents.