Ground-penetrating radar profiling on embanked floodplains

Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-61

  Bakker, Marcel A J ^a   Maljers, D ^a   Weerts, H J T ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Floodplain; GPR (ground penetrating radar); Overbank sediments; Radar facies

Indexed keywords

EMBANKMENT; FLOODPLAIN; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MOISTURE; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; RIVER ENGINEERING; SANDBAR; TEXTURE;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WAAL RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248389802     PISSN: 00167746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016774600021314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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