Monitoring temporal development of spatial soil water content variation: Comparison of ground penetrating radar and time domain reflectometry

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 519-529

  Huisman, J A ^a,b   Snepvangers, J J J C ^a   Bouten, W ^a   Heuvelink, G B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IRRIGATION; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; RADAR; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); SENDER AND RECEIVERS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745146688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/2.4.519     Document Type: Article

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