Kyushu University [Hideki Mizunaga (Associate Professor) Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Resources Engineering]

Department of Earth Resources Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering

092-802-3317

Doctor of Engineering

Exploration Geophysics

Research Interests

Research on underwater survey for buried objects
keyword : underwater survey, resistivity method, electromagnetic method, magnetic method
2007.03.
Research on exploration method for energey and mineral resources
keyword : geothermal exploration, hot spring exploration, petroleum exploration, gold deposit exploration, water resources exploration
1990.06.
Research on archaeological exploration using GPR or resistivity survey
keyword : archaeological exploration, ancient tomb exploration
1993.04.
Research on visualization metod for subsurface fluid flow
keyword : visualization of oil reservoir, visualization of geothermal reservoir, visualization of groundwater
2000.04.

Current and Past Project

Archaeological prospecting at Antokudai ruines at Nakagawa town in Japan
Archaeological prospecting at Mikumo-Iwara ruines
Research on detection of the location of drill-head for horizontal drilling
Research on data analysys of high-precision magnetic survey
Research on detection of oil leakage for Marinehose
Development of data analysis program for transient electromagnetic method
Research on detection of oil leakage for Marinehose
Archaeological prospecting at Mikumo-Iwara ruines
Research on EOR monitoring using Fluid Flow Electromagnetic (FFEM) method
Imaging of injected CO2 into underground using Fluid Flow Tomography
The development of portable resistivity equipments for detecting beried pipes, cavities and ancient objects.

Academic Activities

Reports

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1.	The education and human resource development for earth resources in Kyushu University.
2.	H. Mizunaga, K. H. Lee and H. J. Kim,Three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling in the Laplace domain,Ernest Orlando Lawrence National Laboratory Technical Report (LBNL-42677),1999.01.

Papers

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1.	Tateyuki Negi, Hideki Mizunaga, Toshihiro Uchida,A Technique for Calculating Magnetotelluric Impedance Based on the Presence of Noise,Journal of Novel Carbon Resource Sciences,Vol.Vol.6,pp.36-40,2012.09.
2.	Tateyuki Negi, Hideki Mizunaga, Koichi Asamori and Koji Umeda,Three dimensional magnetotelluric imaging of the source area of 2000 Western Tottori earthquake using heterogeneous smoothness-constraint least-squares method,Proceedings of International Symposium on Earth Science and Technology 2011,341-344,2011.12.
3.	Archaeological Prospecting at Imajuku-Otsuka Tumulus by Uing Seismic Tomography.
4.	Analysis of Apparent Resistivity Profile Using Deconvolution Filter.
5.	Archaeological Prospecting of Keyhole Shaped Mounded Tombs at Ito Campus of Kyushu University.
6.	Three-dimensional Imaging of GPR Data Using F-K Migration.
7.	Reservoir Monitoring of the Onuma Geothermal Field Using Fluid Flow Tomography.
8.	Tree-dimensional inversion of the mise-a-la-masse data using a directional borehole.
9.	Keisuke Ushijima, Hideki Mizunaga and Toshiaki Tanaka,Reservoir monitoring by a 4-D electrical technique,The Leading Edge,Vol.18, No.12, 1422-1424,1999.01.
10.	Calculation of electric potential due to a buried current source in a layered earth.
11.	Hideki Mizunaga, Toshiaki Tanaka, Hideshi Kaieda and Keisuke Ushijima,Fluid flow monitoring system of a geothermal reservoir by electrical prospecting,Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University,Vol.55, No.4, 505-512,1995.01.
12.	Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling for the Mise-a-la-masse Method.
13.	Study on Data Processing for the Mise-a-la-masse Survey.

Presentations

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1.	Jacobian-free inversion of geophysical data.
2.	Development of simultaneously multipoint measurement system using wireless sensor networks for fluid flow electromagnetic method.
3.	Tree-dimensional inversion of fluid flow electromagnetic method.
4.	Ground penetrating radar survey at Shinmachi megalithic dolmens.
5.	Basic experiment for development of the measurement equipment for time-domain IP method.
6.	Development of 2.5-D modeling program for time-domain IP method.
7.	High-resolution cumputation of Jacobian using hyperreal number.
8.	The efficacy of SIP parameterical analysis using modefied Cole-Cole equations.
9.	Numerical modeling of ground penetrating radar using FDTD method.
10.	Three dimensional magnetotelluric imaging of the source area of the 2000 Western Tottori earthquake using heterogeneous smoothness-constraint least-squares method.
11.	Three dimensional magnetotelluric inversion using heterogeneous smoothness-constraint least-squares method.
12.	Development of multipoint measurment system for monitoring geothermal fuluid-flow behavior by fluid flow electromagnetic method.
13.	Three-dimensional modeling of time-domain IP method.
14.	Basic study on numerical Hankel transform in electric and electromagnetic methods.
15.	Archaeological prospecting at Antokudai ruins using ground penetrating radar.
16.	Ground penetrating radar survey at Iwara-Yarimizo ruin.
17.	Improvement of the numerical Hankel transform in marine CSEM method.
18.	2.5-D inversion of time-domain IP method.
19.	Joint Analysis of Marine MT and CSEM Data.
20.	Development of Measurement System for Geothermal Fluid Flow Monitoring by Fluid Flow Electromagnetic Method.
21.	Simulation of Fluid Flow Electromagnetic Method.
22.	Improvement of a small MT equipment for monitoring survey.
23.	2.5-D modeling of time-domain IP method.
24.	New method to estimate IP parameters using modified Cole-Cole equation.
25.	GPR survey at Antokudai ruins.
26.	Development of Measurement System for Fluid Flow Electromagnetic Method.
27.	Development of Analysis Program for TEM Method .
28.	Development of a Small MT Equipment for Monitoring Survey .
29.	High-precision Computation of Hankel Transform Using Continuous Euler Transformation.
30.	Three-dimensional modeling of electromagnetic method .
31.	Archaeological prospecting at Iwara-Yarimizo site using GPR　(2).
32.	Simulation of methane hydrate using marine resistivity method.
33.	Fluid flow tomography survey at Yamakawa geothermal area.
34.	Experimental study of UXO detection using electromagnetic method.
35.	The education and human resource development for earth resources in Kyushu university.
36.	Development of measurement system for Fluid Flow Electromagnetic method - Experimantal production of portable triaxial megnetometer -.
37.	Archaeological Prospecting at　Ito Campus of Kyushu University.
38.	Numerical analysis of SP data using immune algorithm.
39.	Tree-dimensional inversion of mise-a-la-masse method using correlation tomography.
40.	Simulation of IP effect for the mise-a-la-masse method.
41.	Data analysis of apparent resistivity profile using dconvolution filter .
42.	Three-dimensional imaging of internal structure of ancient mounded tomb.
43.	Three-dimensional analysis of Fluid Flow Tomography data.
44.	Three-dimensonal inversion of the mise-a-la-masse method.
45.	Three-dimensonal resistivity inversion using Schlumberger data.
46.	Ground penetrating radar survey for keyhole-shaped mounded tomb.
47.	Archaeological survey at Mizukiato in Dazaifu.
48.	Seismic refraction survey at Iwabaru-Furagozuka Kofun.
49.	Data analysis of three-dimensional resistivity survey.
50.	Groundwater survey at Motooka area in Fukuoka.
51.	Fluid flow tomography survey for geothermal reservoirs in Sumikawa geothermal field, Akita, Japan.
52.	Fluid flow tomography survey in Mori geothermal field.
53.	Fluid flow tomography at Onuma geothermal field.
54.	Monitoring of groundwater contamination by transient electromagnetic method.
55.	3D modeling of magnetotelluric soundings.
56.	Three-dimensional inversion of vertical electric soundings.
57.	Three-dimensional inversion of Schlumberger VES data.
58.	Joint inversion of TEM and MT data.
59.	Geophysical explorations for archaeological ruins.
60.	Probability tomography od SP method.
61.	Electrical prospecting for a keyhole-shaped mounded tomb.
62.	Monitoring of groundwater aquifer by vertical electric soundings.
63.	Three-dimensional EM modeling in the Laplace domain.
64.	Imaging of fractures by electrical methods.
65.	Data processing for the fluid flow tomography method.
66.	Groundwater exploration by self-potential method.
67.	Archaeological prospecting using electrical resistivity method - Case history of Kaibukiyama ancient tomb -.
68.	2D inversion of MT data.
69.	Three-dimensional mise-a-la-masse modeling using horizontal well.
70.	Data processing for the mise-a-la-masse survey.
71.	Monitoring of EOR・IOR operations by electrical prospecting.
72.	Monitoring of EOR operations by electrical prospecting (II).
73.	Inversion interpretation of the mise-a-la-masse data.
74.	Archaeological prospecting by DEF method.
75.	Monitoring of EPR operations by electrical prospecting.
76.	Erectrical resistivity survey for archaeological tombs.
77.	Groundwater exploration in MK area.
78.	Fracture evaluation by electrical prospecting.
79.	Electrical prospecting in Iwatoyama ancient tomb, Yame, Fukuoka.
80.	Three-dimensional inversion of self potensial data.
81.	3D numerical modeling for mise-a-la-masse method.
82.	Vertical erectric sounding at Motooka and Kuwabara areas in Fukuoka city.
83.	Fluid flow imaging of the Earth's interior by electrical prospecting - Three dimensional modeling of SP data - .

Membership in Academic Society

Society of Exploration Geopysicists, Japan
The Geothermal Research Society of Japan
Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan
The Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology
Archaeological Prospection Society of Japan

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