Quantifying field-scale surface soil water content from proximal GPR signal inversion in the time domain

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 483-491

  Jadoon, Khan Zaib ^a   Lambot, Sébastien ^a,b   Scharnagl, Benedikt ^a   Van Kruk, Jan Der ^a   Slob, Evert ^c   Vereecken, Harry ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; CALIBRATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL WATER; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 78649344493     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2010036     Document Type: Article

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