Continuous and simultaneous measurement of reflector depth and average soil-water content with multichannel ground-penetrating radar

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Gerhards, Holger ^a   Wollschläger, Ute ^a   Yu, Qihao ^b   Schiwek, Philip ^a   Pan, Xicai ^a,b   Roth, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MEASUREMENT LOCATIONS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MULTI-CHANNEL GROUND-PENETRATING RADARS; MULTIPLE TRANSMITTERS; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DATA SET; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TRAVEL TIME; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 48449094547     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2943669     Document Type: Article

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