Development of a time-frequency approach to quantify railroad ballast fouling condition using ultra-wide band ground-penetrating radar data

International Journal of Pavement Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 269-279

  Al Qadi, Imad L ^a   Xie, Wei ^a   Jones, Douglas L ^a   Roberts, Roger ^b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b Geophysical Survey Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fouling condition; Ground penetrating radar; Railroad ballast; Scattering analysis; Ultra wide band radar

Indexed keywords

AIR VOIDS; BALLAST FOULING; CENTRE FREQUENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY; FIELD SURVEYS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; GROUND TRUTH; MOISTURE CONTENTS; SCATTERING ANALYSIS; SCATTERING PATTERN; SUB-BANDS; SYSTEM CAPABILITIES; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME-FREQUENCY APPROACH; TIME-FREQUENCY TECHNIQUES; ULTRA-WIDE BAND RADAR;

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FOULING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADAR; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; SCATTERING; SIGNAL DETECTION; WATER CONTENT;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953198340     PISSN: 10298436     EISSN: 1477268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10298431003749766     Document Type: Article

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