Subsurface Conditions (Paperback, 2003)

Fundamentals.- Characterisation of the shallow subsurface: implications for urban infrastructure and environmental assessment.- Bridging the gap between geoscience providers and the user community.- Definition of the modelling technologies.- New paradigms for geoscience information management.- End-User Requirements.- Putting the user first: implications for subsurface characterisation.- What are the end-user issues? Settlement risk management in underground construction.- Data requirements for geo-environmental management: end-user and producer perspectives for a harbour.- A decision support system for groundwater: water management issues for opencast mining.- Model Construction and Visualisation.- Visualisation: are the images really useful?.- Numerical schemes for process simulation: software for coupling pattern recognition to process modelling.- Regional subsurface models and their practical usage.- Slope stability estimation using GIS.- Using 2D GIS for the 3D reconstruction of the Corno Zuccone sackung, Val Taleggio (Italy).- Sedimentation modelling: data analysis in Rotterdam Harbour.- Fluid flow in fractured formations.- Effect of strain-softening on settlement due to tunnelling in soft soil.- Dissemination Strategies.- Dissemination of geoscience data: societal implications.- An economic model for the dissemination of national geological survey products and services.- Access to national geoscience repositories using digital geoscience spatial models.- Dissemination and visualisation of earth system models for the Dutch subsurface.- Property Prediction.- Total Geological History: a web-based modelling approach to the anticipation, observation and understanding of site conditions.- 3D modelling system for ground engineering.- Rock mass quality assessment based on deformation: experience from recent tunnels.- Improving subsurface parameter estimation through guiding geophysical inversions with a priori geological data.- Characterisation of void space utilising pore network models.- Assisting data interpretation: the cone penetration test.- Managing Uncertainty.- Impact of geoinformatics on the emerging Geoscience Knowledge Integration Paradigm.- Assessment of uncertainties in volume and yield estimations of clastic deposits.- Uncertainty with characterisation of soils.- Analysing uncertainty when modelling geological structures.- Uncertainty characterisation: reliability methods for slope stability.- The Way Ahead.- Current themes, issues and challenges concerning the prediction of subsurface conditions.- The Global Geoscientific Knowledge Network: overcoming the impediments to subsurface characterisation.