Near-surface water content estimation with borehole ground penetrating radar using critically refracted waves

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-252

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR; REFRACTION; TRAVEL TIME; WATER CONTENT;

DIRECT PATHS; DIRECT WAVES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND SURFACES; NEAR SURFACES; REFRACTED ENERGY; REFRACTED WAVES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

SURFACE WATERS;

EID: 3342972457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/2.2.247     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Binley, A., G. Cassiani, R. Middleton, and P. Winship. 2002a. Vadose zone flow model parameterisation using cross-borehole radar and resistivity imaging. J. Hydrol. (Amsterdam) 267:147-159.
2. Binley, A., P. Winship, R. Middleton, M. Pokar, and J. West. 2001. High-resolution characterization of vadose zone dynamics using cross-borehole radar. Water Resour. Res. 37:2639-2652.
3. Binley, A., P. Winship, M. Pokar, J. West, and R. Middleton. 2002b. Seasonal variation of moisture content in unsaturated sandstone inferred from borehole radar and resistivity profiles. J. Hydrol. (Amsterdam) 267:160-172.
4. Bohidar, R.N., and J. Hermance. 2002. The GPR refraction method. Geophysics 67:1474-1485.
5. Davis, J.L., and A.P. Annan. 1989. Ground-penetrating radar for high-resolution mapping of soil and rock stratigraphy. Geophys. Prospect. 37:531-551.
6. Ferre, P.A., D.L. Rudolph, and R.G. Kachanoski. 1996. Spatial averaging of water content by time domain reflectometry: Implications for twin rod probes with and without dielectric coatings. Water Resour. Res. 32:271-279.
7. Hammon, W.S. III, X. Zeng, R.M. Corbeanu, and G.A. McMechan. 2002. Estimation of the spatial distribution of fluid permeability from surface and tomographic GPR data and core, with a 2D example from the ferron sandstone. Utah Geophys. 67:1505-1515.
8. Kuroda, S., H. Nakazato, S. Nihira, M. Hatakeyama, M. Takeuchi, M. Asano, Y. Todoroki, and M. Konno. 2002. Cross-hole geo-radar monitoring for moisture distribution and migration in soil beneath an infiltration pit: A case study of an artificial groundwater recharge test in Niigata, Japan. Proc. SPIE 4758:703-707.
9. Parkin, G., D. Redman, P. von Bertoldi, and Z. Zhang. 2000. Measurement of soil water content below a wastewater trench using ground-penetrating radar. Water Resour. Res. 36:2147-2154.
10. Rucker, D.F., and P.A. Ferre. 2002. Direct comparison of ground penetrating radar transillumination and in-situ time domain reflectometry for monitoring the advance of a wetting front. In SAGEEP 2002. Annual Meeting of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society. Las Vegas, NV. 10-14 Feb. 2002. EEGS, Denver, CO.
11. Sheriff, R.E., and L.P. Geldart. 1995. Exploration seismology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
12. Topp, G.C., J.L. Davis, and A.P. Annan. 1980. Electromagnetic determination of soil water content: measurements in coaxial transmission lines. Water Resour. Res. 16:574-582.