Exploration for hidden treasures of oil, gas, water, minerals, man-made structure etc can be done.
The services you've stated may or may not be directly related to community services. Most of them may involve finance/economics.
Nevertheless, Geophysics can be directly related to community services in societal interest, say a) in assessment of debris or overburden cover - rock relationship at a site affected by a landslide, b) to assess overburden's thickness along alignment of rail/road route alignment studies, especially in hilly terrain. Therefore, we can see that Geophysics, in addition to commercial purposes stated, can be of very much importance where societal issues, esp. natural hazards like landslides, come.
In short, yes.
Geophysical methods can be used from investigating your backyard searching for pipes (GPR, magnetism, resistivity) to investigating the Earth Structure (seismic wave propagation). By 'community service', I think you mean construction sites, rescue operations and mineral prospecting. And, yes, geophysical methods are often used to address these issues, but each method is more or less appropriate according to the situation. GPR, for example, is not good for wet terranes or near magnetic materials, while the seismic methods usually (not always) work more properly to study deeper levels. Resistivity requires a good contrast between the target materials and their surroundings, etc.
Yes, Geophysics is related to community services. Geophysics is the application of physics to study the Earth, oceans, atmosphere, environment & near-Earth space. It is a major subject of petroleum engineering and directly related to oil and gas exploration & water science.
Indeed Dear Prof. Muhammad Jahangir Khan,
O&G geophysics exploration helped many years (1946-1999) hundreds of communities in Venezuela. Money to build community facilities and also to improve the quality of services such as electricity and water.
Certainly, geophysics is associated with the need for government institutions and services that provide services and implement projects for society. There are specialists and experts in the field of applied geophysics, for the uses of technology in the fields of oil, water, minerals, archeology and geotechnical problems such as bridges, dams and strategic installations as well as the side of environmental protection and lastly that Geophysics has a fundamental role in serving the community
Geophysics is probably the highest important science in promoting different countries. GeophsGeophysicsiscs are responsible for
1)Energy (Oil-Gas-Coal....etc)
2)Water (Udergroundwater) prospecting
3)Minerals Exploration as araw materials for different industries
4)Environmental applications
5)Civil Engineering
6) Archeological Prospecting
7) Touristic applications
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