A strategy for the determination of the dielectric permittivity of a lossy soil exploiting GPR surface measurements and a cooperative target

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 288-295

  Soldovieri, Francesco ^a   Prisco, Giancarlo ^a   Persico, Raffaele ^b  

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

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground Penetrating Radar; Microwave tomography; Soil dielectric permittivity determination

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; A-SPOTS; ACCURATE ESTIMATIONS; BURIED OBJECTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES; ELECTRICAL FIELDS; GPR DATA PROCESSING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INDIRECT MEASURES; MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY; SOIL CONDUCTIVITIES; SOIL PERMITTIVITIES; SURFACE DATUM; TOMOGRAPHIC;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BORN APPROXIMATION; DATA PROCESSING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TARGETS; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SOILS;

BORN APPROXIMATION; BURIED TARGET; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; PERMITTIVITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 63649150839     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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