Comparison of travel time analysis and inverse modeling for soil water content determination with time domain reflectometry

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 13-1-13-8

  Huisman, J A ^a   Weerts, A H ^a   Heimovaara, T J ^b   Bouten, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL HASKONINGDHV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inverse modeling; Reproducibility; Soil water content; Time domain reflectometry; Travel time analysis

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; SOILS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

WATER RESOURCES;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TRAVEL TIME; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0036592337     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000259     Document Type: Article

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