The importance of fracture geometry and matrix data on transient hydraulic tomography in fractured rocks: Analyses of synthetic and laboratory rock block experiments

•Geostatistics-based hydraulic tomography (HT) yields smooth K and Ss estimates.•Integration of accurate geologic data significantly improves parameter estimates.•Fracture orientation, connectivity, and matrix data are useful for improving HT.•Inversion results are better with homogeneous values than with bad geologic data.