Inversion of tracer test data using tomographic constraints

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Linde, Niklas ^a,b,d   Finsterle, Stefan ^c   Hubbard, Susan ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; RADAR SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

PETROPHYSICAL RELATIONSHIPS; RADAR DATA ERRORS; RADAR TOMOGRAMS; ZONATION INFORMATIONS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; RADAR SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER ANALYSIS;

DATA INVERSION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33744798753     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003806     Document Type: Article

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