resistivity survey
noun
A survey of the electrical resistivity of the ground at different points over an area or along a route, typically based on measurements of the current passing between electrodes embedded in the ground at successive pairs of points and used to locate buried structural features; a similar survey of the internal structure of a solid object.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Bulletin National Research Council.
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