Ground penetrating radar measurements in a controlled vadose zone: Influence of the water content

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1082-1092

  Loeffler, Olivier ^a   Bano, Maksim ^a  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; WATER CONTENT;

GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; NONDESTRUCTIVE METHODS; RELATIVE DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY; UNSATURATED SAND; WATER QUANTITIES;

SAND;

EID: 27644435466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.4.1082     Document Type: Article

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