The sample areas of conventional and alternative time domain reflectometry probes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2971-2979

  Ferre P A ^a   Knight, J H ^b   Rudolph, D L ^a   Kachanoski, R G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERMITTIVITY; SAMPLING; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

ALUMINUM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SEPARATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; LOW DIELECTRIC; RELATIVE DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY; SAMPLE AREAS; SAMPLE SIZES; SPATIAL SENSITIVITY; SURFACE PROBES; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY PROBES;

PROBES;

EID: 0031761359     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02093     Document Type: Article

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