Remote estimation of the hydraulic properties of a sand using full-waveform integrated hydrogeophysical inversion of time-lapse, off-ground GPR data

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 743-754

  Lambot, Sébastien ^a,b   Slob, Evert ^c   Rhebergen, Jan ^d   Lopera, Olga ^a,e   Jadoon, Khan Zaib ^a,b   Vereecken, Harry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Global multilevel coordinate search, GPR; GMCS; Ground penetrating radar, NMS; Nelder Mead simplex, PEC; Perfect electrical conductor, SFCW; Stepped frequency continuous wave, TDR; Time domain reflectometry, UWB; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SHALLOW WATER; SOIL PROPERTY; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER FLOW; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349325575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2008.0058     Document Type: Article

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