Monitoring of soil moisture and groundwater levels using ultrasonic waves to predict slope failures

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 617-620

  Tanaka, Katsuhiko ^a   Suda, Takefumi ^a   Hirai, Kazuhiro ^a   Sako, Kazunari ^a   Fuakgawa, Ryoichi ^a   Shimamura, Makoto ^b   Togari, Asako ^b  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER LEVEL; HEAVY RAINFALL; INDOOR EXPERIMENT; METALLIC PIPES; NOVEL METHODS; PROPAGATION TIME; REFLECTED WAVES; SLOPE FAILURE; UPPER-END;

GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PIPE; RAIN; SENSORS; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; WATER CONTENT; WATER LEVELS;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 77951116641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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