Spatially resolved water content profiles from inverted time domain reflectometry signals

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Oswald, B ^a,b   Benedickter, H R ^a   Bachtold W ^a   Fluhler H ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inverse problems; Spatial resoloution; TDR; Water content

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFLECTOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR); WATER CONTENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

METHODOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 1242277343     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001890     Document Type: Article

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