DNAPL mapping by ground penetrating radar examined via numerical simulation

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 140-149

  Wilson, Victoria ^a   Power, Christopher ^b   Giannopoulos, Antonios ^a   Gerhard, Jason ^b   Grant, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dielectric; DNAPL; Ground penetrating radar; Root sum of the squares

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; BULK PERMITTIVITY; CHARACTERISATION; CHLORINATED SOLVENT; DECONVOLUTING; DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; DNAPL SOURCE ZONES; FIELD SCALE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; MASS REDUCTION; MIXING MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; REAL APPLICATIONS; REMOBILIZATION; SILTY SANDS; SOURCE ZONE; SUBSURFACE DISTRIBUTION; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT; SUBSURFACE HETEROGENEITY; SUM OF SQUARES;

DISSOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; POLLUTION; RADAR; SIMULATORS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; DISSOLUTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MAPPING; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMEDIATION;

EID: 70450240763     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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