Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers ISSN:2288-0291(Print) 2288-2790(Online) 한국자원공학회지

In order to model ground water flow, the subsurface characterization is critical and GIS has been widely used to extract the required information from GIS database. There have been several researches on characterization of the subsurface in 2D or 3D using GIS. However, the fact that 3D grid generation process was not automated has been the problem. Based on this background, the main objective of this study is to develop a subsurface characterization interface using borehole data. In the subsurface characterization interface, an area of interest in 3D can be defined by separate setting of horizontal and vertical area of interest. Various options which are needed for ground water modelling can be selected on the interface so that the subsurface characterization can be performed easily and quickly. Also, 3D grid generation process was automated and this reduced the time for subsurface characterization. The results of subsurface characterization were visualized in 3D and were used for generating whole field of porosity and hydraulic conductivity in Geo Flow 3D.