GPR and microwave tomography for detecting shallow cavities in the historical area of "Sassi of Matera" (Southern Italy)

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-284

  Piscitelli, Sabatino ^a   Rizzo, Enzo ^a   Cristallo, Filippo ^a   Lapenna, Vincenzo ^a   Crocco, Lorenzo ^b   Persico, Raffaele ^b   Soldovieri, Francesco ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CAVE SYSTEM; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HILL; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SHALLOW SOIL; TOMOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

BASILICATA; ITALY; MATERA;

EID: 34547676667     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2007009     Document Type: Article

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