ABSTRACT: The Lower Tagus Valley (LTV) region has the highest population density in Portugal, with over 3.7 million people living in the region. It has been struck in the past by several historical earthquakes, which caused significant economic and human losses. For a proper seismic hazard evaluation, the area needs detailed V-s30 and soil classification maps. Previously available maps are based on proxies, or ...
ABSTRACT: The Lower Tagus Valley area (LTV), where Lisbon is located, has been affected by several destructive, M 6+ earthquakes whose sources remain to be determined. The identification of expectable surface or near surface ruptures in the area is a challenging task that requires a multidisciplinary analysis that includes geophysical techniques, as the source faults are mainly buried despite likely to deform U...
Due to the presence of an excessive amount of noise in the data, archeological geophysics frequently produces results that cannot be used to evaluate the content that may exist in the subsurface. If it is impossible to differentiate between signal and noise, excessive noise will result. Its genesis, when it is attributable to heterogeneities in the ground (overthrows, corners) that produce as many reflections a...
The study of soils contaminated by heavy metals (HMs) is a hard task that implies the collecting of soil samples in an area representative of the contaminated space. For example, for water samples, the law requires the creation of a study grid with 5 ha spacing. Considering this spacing requirement, to the soil from the São Domingos Mine, that have an area of approximately 2000 ha, we need to collect 400 sample...
Livro de Resumos da 11ª Assembleia Luso Espanhola de Geodesia e Geofísica
The Roman villa of Pisões (Beja, Portugal) was part of the Lusitanian colony of Pax Iulia. This place stands out for the predominance of the water element in several structures of the villa, highlighting the balneum and the large natatio, one of the largest known in Roman Hispania. The records of the initial excavations that took place beginning in 1967 do not allow the establishment of clear functionalities of...
Geophysical data with noise issues are quite common, resulting in low detection conditions. This prevents the ground content from being evaluated to determine the existence of structures buried in the ground in an archaeological site. Standard processing on ground-penetrating radar and magnetic data does not effectively eliminate or mitigate this effect. The use of advanced and customized data processing is a v...
The Roman villa of Pisões (Beja, Portugal), was part of the Lusitanian colony of Pax Iulia. This place stands out for the predominance of the water element in several structures of the villa, highlighting the balneum and the large natatio, one of the largest known in Roman Hispania. The records of the initial excavations that took place since 1967 do not allow the establishment of clear functionalities of the v...
Os dados de georradar (GPR) e gradiente vertical magnético (MAG) nem sempre fornecem informações sobre a existência de estruturas enterradas mesmo que haja bastantes evidências à superfície. A falta de percetibilidade que por vezes se verifica em dados geofísicos é um problema conferido pelas condições físicas e químicas do meio analisado, que tem como consequência o aumento do ruído de fundo dos dados, ao níve...
No dia 19 de Março de 2022, pelas 17h e 11 minutos desencadeou-se na Ilha de S. Jorge - Açores uma crise sísmica cuja frequência atingiu o máximo de 700 eventos/hora. Nos dias seguintes ao início da crise, o Instituto de Ciências da Terra – Universidade de Évora - e o Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA) procederam à instalação de um conjunto de estações sísmicas nas ilhas de S. Jorge, Pico e Faial,...