Ground-penetrating-radar-assisted saturation and permeability estimation in bimodal systems

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 971-990

  Hubbard, Susan S ^a   Rubin, Yoram ^a   Majer, Ernie ^b  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RADAR OBSERVATION;

BIMODAL SYSTEM; ESTIMATION; GPR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; PERMEABILITY; SATURATION; VADOSE ZONE;

BOREHOLES; CHARACTERIZATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR;

DEGREE OF SATURATIONS; DIELECTRIC-CONSTANT MEASUREMENTS; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); INTRINSIC PERMEABILITY; PERMEABILITY ESTIMATION;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030619040     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR03979     Document Type: Article

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