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The use of badly designed, not engineered, and not well-operated landfills has, around the world, produced a large number of potentially contaminated sites, for which there are urgent needs to assess the actual risk and to proceed, in case, with reclamation activities. One of these sites, an abandoned waste disposal site located near a Site of Community Importance on the central-eastern coast of Sardinia (Italy), is the subject of the case history described in this work. As a part of a multi-method geophysical characterisation, a frequency-domain electromagnetic (FDEM) mapping survey was carried out with the specific aim of detecting the presence of buried materials (waste) and of delineating the lateral extent of the landfill by identifying the electrical conductivity anomalies produced, for the most part, by the conductive waste fill. Using an EM31 device in the vertical-dipole configuration, at a height of 0.9 m above the ground, both quadrature and in-phase electromagnetic responses were collected over a 7-hectare area with elevation varying between 6 m and 2.8 m above sea level. After removing the measurements identified as data coming from any recognisable surface man-made features within the survey area or near its perimeter, the filtered quadrature response (expressed as apparent conductivity) ranged from 5.5 mS\/m to about 188.6 mS\/m. All values are beyond the low induction number (LIN) condition and valid for the classical EM31 mapping, thus requiring advanced data processing. To obtain undistorted, meaningful, and interpretable high-resolution maps, measured data have been processed to correct the bias, introduced by the nonlinearity of the device, as a function of height above ground and the topography. The comparative analysis of the apparent conductivity map, obtained by the properly processed EM31 data and some aerial photos that clearly documented the site history, has allowed unequivocal delineation of the landfill extent, in good agreement with the results obtained with other geophysical methods (not described in this paper) and with the ground truthing data provided by three boreholes, which were core-drilled at the end of the study at three locations selected on the basis of the apparent conductivity map.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14040878","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,13]],"date-time":"2022-02-13T20:34:45Z","timestamp":1644784485000},"page":"878","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Frequency-Domain Electromagnetic Mapping of an Abandoned Waste Disposal Site: A Case in Sardinia (Italy)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3729-4327","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gian Piero","family":"Deidda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, via Marengo 2, 09123 Cagliari, Italy"}]},{"given":"Mahjoub","family":"Himi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Petrology, Geochemistry, and Geological Prospection, Universitat de Barcelona, Mart\u00ed y Franqu\u00e8s s\/n, 08030 Barcelona, Spain"}]},{"given":"Ilaria","family":"Barone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padua, Italy"}]},{"given":"Giorgio","family":"Cassiani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, via Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padua, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4964-1226","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Albert","family":"Casas Ponsati","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Petrology, Geochemistry, and Geological Prospection, Universitat de Barcelona, Mart\u00ed y Franqu\u00e8s s\/n, 08030 Barcelona, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2021, August 30). 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