Assisted traveltime picking of crosshole GPR data

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Giroux, Bernard ^a   Bouchedda, Abderrezak ^a   Chouteau, Michel ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; WAVEFORM SIMILARITY;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ARRIVAL TIME; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TRANSFORM; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650305950     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3141002     Document Type: Article

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