Efficient three-dimensional data inversion: Soil characterization and moisture monitoring from cross-well ground-penetrating radar at a Vermont test site

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1889-1900

  Eppstein, Margaret J ^a   Dougherty, David E ^a  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; METHODOLOGY; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; SOIL MOISTURE; UNSATURATED ZONE; VADOSE ZONE;

UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TRAVEL TIME; WATER INJECTION;

CONE PENETROMETERS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); MOISTURE MONITORING; SOIL CHARACTERIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; TRAVEL TIME ESTIMATION;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031846142     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00776     Document Type: Article

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