Full-waveform inversion of crosshole radar data based on 2-d finite-difference time-domain solutions of maxwell's equations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2807-2828

  Ernst, Jacques R ^a,b   Maurer, Hansruedi ^b   Green, Alan G ^b   Holliger, Klaus ^c  

^a IEEE

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crosshole radar; Dielectric permittivity; Electrical conductivity; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Full waveform inversion; Maxwell's equations

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR IMAGING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CROSSHOLE ACQUISITION; CROSSHOLE RADAR; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; HETEROGENEOUS LAYERED MODELS;

DATA RECORDING;

EID: 34548245897     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.901048     Document Type: Article

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