Welcome from the Scientific Committee

The growing population and limited space are continuously challenging our needs and usage of energy, resources, agriculture, infrastructure, geo-engineering structures, and cultural heritage. The changing perception of the human role in the world and the environment poses growing demands for characterization and monitoring of the processes and conditions in the subsurface for a sustainable use and preservation. The Near Surface Geoscience Conference and Exhibition 2019 embraces these challenges and demands, and answers them with a multitude of imaging, characterization, and monitoring methods and techniques at different scales making use of the newest theoretical, laboratory, and field developments in geophysics and geotechnics, but also in computer power and algorithms. 

Technical Programme

The programme includes oral and poster sessions on the multitude of geophysical methods and their airborne, borehole, land, and marine modelling and applications for archaeology, agriculture, environmental and hydrogeophysics, cold zones, geotechnical engineering, hot zones, and mining and mineral exploration. Attention will also be paid to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous platforms. All these will be combined in dedicated sessions. 

Furthermore, three one-day dedicated workshops are planned to address geophysics for geohazards, forensic geophysics, and benchmark testing for GPR. The scientific committee invites you to contribute to the technical programme by submitting an expanded abstract. 

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