Traveltime inversion of vertical radar profiles

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Clement, William P ^a   Knoll, Michael D ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomagnetism; Groundwater; Seismic waves

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROSPECTING; GEOMAGNETISM; GROUNDWATER; RADAR IMAGING; SEISMIC WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

TRAVELTIME INVERSION; VERTICAL RADAR PROFILES;

GEOPHYSICS;

AQUIFER; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOMAGNETISM; GROUNDWATER; RADAR; SEISMIC WAVE; SIMULATION;

BOISE; IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745072744     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2194527     Document Type: Article

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