Estimating porosity with ground-penetrating radar reflection tomography: A controlled 3-D experiment at the Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Bradford, John H ^a   Clement, William P ^a   Barrash, Warren ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; NEUTRONS; POROSITY; RADAR REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

BOISE HYDROGEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH SITES; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDROLOGIC PROPERTIES; NEUTRON POROSITY LOGS; POROSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL RADAR PROFILES;

NEUTRON LOGGING;

BOREHOLE; DATA SET; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; PHREATIC ZONE; POROSITY; RADAR IMAGERY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY;

BOISE; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551660881     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006960     Document Type: Article

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