“…This physical property of the ground is mainly influenced by the mineralogy of the particles, porosity, ground water content, water salinity and the intrinsic weathering/alteration of the material (Reynolds, 2011;Archie, 2003;Park and Kim, 2005;Bièvre et al, 2012). Since some of these factors, especially the change of water content and weathering/alteration degree, are well-known rulers in the triggering mechanisms of gravitational mass movement (Gabet, 2007;Matsuura et al, 2008;Schulz et al, 2009;Sajinkumar et al, 2011;Regmi et al, 2013), the ERT technique has been widely applied for landslide characterization and monitoring studies (McCann and Forster, 1990;Hack, 2000;Jongmans and Garambois, 2007;Yilmaz, 2007;Perrone et al, 2014;Heinze et al, 2017;Boyd et al, 2019). However, direct current (DC) measurements (as ERT) can suffer from a range of sources of error that, if not correctly addressed, can have a significant impact on the interpretation of the survey results (Binley, 2015).…”