Measuring soil surface water content in irrigated areas of southern Tunisia using Full-waveform inversion of proximal GPR data

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 403-410

  Lambot, Sébastien ^a,b   Slob, Evert ^c   Chavarro, Diana ^d   Lubczynski, Maciek ^d   Vereecken, Harry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SATURATION; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 57449083585     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2008028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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