3D polarimetric GPR coherency attributes and full-waveform inversion of transmission data for characterizing fractured rock

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Sassen, Douglas S ^a   Everett, Mark E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; LIME; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DETECTION AND DISCRIMINATIONS; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FRACTURED-ROCK FORMATIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; TIME-DOMAIN SCATTERINGS;

FRACTURE;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; DETECTION METHOD; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; EIGENVALUE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; ROCK MECHANICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 65549152212     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3103253     Document Type: Article

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