Characterization of permeability anisotropy using wavelet analysis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Neupauer, Roseanna M ^a   Powell, Kaye L ^b,c   Qi, Xing ^b   Lee, Douglas H ^b,d,f   Villhauer, Danylo A ^b,e  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Environmental Strategies Consulting LLC   (United States)

^d Organization of Chinese Americans Inc   (United States)

^e Patton Harris Rust and Associates   (United States)

^f Organization of Chinese Americans Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CAUCHY WAVELET; MEXICAN HAT WAVELET; MORLET WAVELETS; PERMEABILITY FIELDS;

HYDROLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; HYDROLOGY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANISOTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 33748032086     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004364     Document Type: Article

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