BGPRconstruct: A MATLAB® ray-tracing program for nonlinear inversion of first arrival travel time data from zero-offset borehole radar

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 767-776

  Rucker, Dale F ^a   Ferré, Ty P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphical user interface; Monte Carlo; Optimization; Simulated annealing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

NONLINEAR INVERSION; RAY-TRACING PROGRAM;

BOREHOLES;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 3342911901     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2004.05.009     Document Type: Article

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