Obtaining the spatial distribution of water content along a TDR probe using the SCEM-UA Bayesian inverse modeling scheme

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1128-1145

  Heimovaara, Timo J ^a   Huisman, Johan A ^b,c   Vrugt, Jasper A ^b   Bouten, Willem ^b  

^a ROYAL HASKONINGDHV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; PERMITTIVITY; PROBES; SOIL SURVEYS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; METROPOLIS ALGORITHMS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SHUFFLED COMPLEX EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 19044373877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.4.1128     Document Type: Article

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