Acoustic tomography applied to water flow in unsaturated soils

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 288-299

  Blum, Andreas ^a   Flammer, Ivo ^a   Friedli, Thomas ^b   Germann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW OF WATER; REFLECTOMETERS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT;

ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS; TOMOGRAPHY ALGORITHM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL TOMOGRAPHY; UNDISTURBED LOESS; WATER REDISTRIBUTION;

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EID: 12444318265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.1.288     Document Type: Article

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