Imaging attributes of railway track formation and ballast using ground probing radar

NDT and E International

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 457-462

  Jack, R ^a   Jackson, P ^a  

^a IMC Geophysics Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ballast; Formation; Ground probing radar; Railway trackbed

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346934251     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8695(99)00023-7     Document Type: Article

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