ABSTRACT
This article aims at presenting BEST method and reviewing its recent improvement. Two main versions were proposed, the original version (Lassabatere et al., 2006) and a new version modified for coarse material (Yilmaz et al., 2010). The main difference between the two methods lies in the inversion algorithm of infiltration, but the physical principles remain the same. Recently, works focused on the improvement and the validation of the inversion procedure using analytical generated data. In addition, a new Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been developed in order to ease the use of BEST algorithm. All these aspects are presented successively with prospects for future development.
