“…The P-wave refraction method has a wide range of uses at several scales of application, from seismological studies (e.g., Zelt and Smith, 1992) to the nondestructive evaluation of cultural heritage artefacts (e.g., Sambuelli et al, 2011). At the engineering scale, P-wave refraction is frequently used for the reconstruction of seismic models for the shallow layers in hydrocarbon exploration geophysics (e.g., Macrides and Dennis, 1994), imaging of complex structures in the subsurface (Nyquist et al, 1996;Ramos Martinez et al, 1997), monitoring of environmental issues (Lanz et al, 1998;de Iaco et al, 2003), landslide monitoring (e.g., Uhlemann et al, 2015), hydrogeological studies (e.g., Ayers, 1990;Donohue et al, 2015), and detection of underground cavities (Sloan et al, 2015;Toth et al, 2015).…”