A practical approach to correct attenuation effects in GPR data

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 140-151

  Xavier Neto, Pedro ^a,b   Eugênio de Medeiros, Walter ^a  

^a Departamento de Física Teórica e Experimental   (Brazil)

^b PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Deconvolution; Dispersion; GPR; Propagation effects; Spectral balancing

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CONVOLUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GEOLOGIC MEDIUM; PROPAGATION EFFECTS; SPECTRAL BALANCING;

GEOPHYSICS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646768983     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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