Estimating soil electric properties from monostatic ground-penetrating radar signal inversion in the frequency domain

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Lambot, S ^a   Slob, E C ^b   Van Den Bosch, I ^a   Stockbroeckx, B ^a   Scheers, B ^c   Vanclooster, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar; Inverse modeling; Soil electric properties; Soil water content

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SOILS;

STEPPED FREQUENCY CONTINUOUS WAVE (SFCW); ULTRAWIDE BAND (UWB);

WATER RESOURCES;

ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; METHODOLOGY; SOIL WATER;

EID: 2442706911     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002095     Document Type: Article

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