Muography : Exploring Earth's Subsurface With Elementary Particles

A technique for visualizing Earth's subsurface at high resolution

Hidden out of sight in Earth’s subsurface are a range of geophysical structures, processes, and material movements. Muography is a passive and non-destructive remote sensing technique that visualizes  the internal structure of solid geological structures at high resolution, similar in process to X-ray radiography of human bodies.

Muography: Exploring Earth's Subsurface with Elementary Particles explores the application of this imaging technique in the geosciences and how it can complement conventional geophysical observations.

Volume highlights include:

• Principles of muography and pioneering works in the field
• Different approaches for muographic image processing
• Observing volcanic structures and activity with muography
• Using muography for geophysical exploration and mining engineering
• Potential environmental applications of muography
• Latest technological developments in muography

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László Oláh, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Dezsõ Varga, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary.