Enhancing the vertical resolution of surface georadar data

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-35

  Belina, F A ^a   Dafflon, B ^a   Tronicke, J ^b   Holliger, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data processing; Deconvolution; Georadar; Spectral balancing; Vertical resolution

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SPECTRUM; BALANCING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHMS; DECONVOLUTION APPROACHES; GEORADAR; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LEAST-SQUARES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; PROCESSING FLOWS; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; SEISMIC DATUM; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATUM; SIGNAL QUALITIES; SPECTRAL BALANCING; SPECTRAL WHITENINGS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVOLUTION; DECONVOLUTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STANDARDS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; DECONVOLUTION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; RADAR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 67349166927     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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