Soil surface water content estimation by full-waveform GPR signal inversion in the presence of thin layers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1138-1150

  Minet, Julien ^a   Lambot, Sébastien ^a,b   Slob, Evert C ^c   Vanclooster, Marnik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dielectric properties; Digital soil mapping; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Inverse modeling; Soil layering; Soil water content

Indexed keywords

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); INVERSE MODELING; SOIL LAYERINGS; SOIL MAPPING; SOIL WATER CONTENT;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATERS;

INVERSION LAYERS;

DIGITAL MAPPING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; THIN SECTION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 77956062334     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2031907     Document Type: Article

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