Analysis of nonuniform and dispersive time domain reflectometry measurement systems with application to the dielectric spectroscopy of soils

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Lin, C P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dielectric spectroscopy; Soil moisture; Soil physics; TDR; Time domain reflectometry; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COAXIAL CABLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; MIXING; PERMITTIVITY; REFLECTOMETERS; SOILS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CABLE TESTERS;

WATER RESOURCES;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EID: 18344400491     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001418     Document Type: Article

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