Discontinuity characterization by the inversion of the spectral content of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) reflections - Application of the Jonscher model

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1414-1424

  Grégoire, Collette ^a   Hollender, Fabrice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOPHYSICS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERMITTIVITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR REFLECTION;

FILLING MATERIALS; GRID-SEARCH ALGORITHM; REFLECTED WAVELETS; SPECTRAL RATIO; DOMINANT WAVELENGTH; ELECTRIC PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); PERMITTIVITY MODEL;

RADAR REFLECTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; DISCONTINUITY; GEOPHYSICS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR;

EID: 12144279426     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1836816     Document Type: Article

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