Eigendecomposition of TDR waveforms: A novel method to determine water content and pore fluid concentration of sandy soils

Environmental Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 132-143

  Mohamed, A M O ^a   Said, R A ^a   El Bassiouni, M Y ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Autoregressive modeling; Eigenvalues; Eigenvectors; Multivariate statistical analysis; Power spectrum; Signal noise; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAND; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER;

SANDY SOILS;

SOILS;

POREWATER; SALINITY; SANDY SOIL; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0346671009     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-003-0867-1     Document Type: Article

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