Correcting water content measurement errors associated with critically refracted first arrivals on zero offset profiling borehole ground penetrating radar profiles

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 278-287

  Rucker, Dale F ^a   Ferre P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RADAR; TRAVEL TIME; WATER CONTENT;

FIELD EXPERIMENT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HIGH WATER CONTENT; REFRACTED WAVES; VELOCITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY PROFILES; WATER CONTENT MEASUREMENTS; WATER CONTENT PROFILES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 3342942917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.1.278     Document Type: Article

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