Surface impedance time domain reflectometry for the determination of ice depth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1599-1602

  Garner, Stephen J ^a   Thiel, David V ^a   O'Keefe, Steven G ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ICE; METADATA; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SEAWATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PERMITTIVITY;

COMPUTER MODELLING; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOCATION OF FAULT; LOSSY TRANSMISSION LINE; MAXIMUM FREQUENCY; SEPARATION TIME; SURFACE IMPEDANCES; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS;

ICE DEPTH; SURFACE IMPEDANCE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

DEPTH MEASUREMENT; ICE THICKNESS; IMPEDANCE; TDR; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EID: 0031182365     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01540     Document Type: Article

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