Spatial time domain reflectometry and its application for the measurement of water content distributions along flat ribbon cables in a full-scale levee model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Scheuermann, Alexander ^a   Huebner, Christof ^b   Schlaeger, Stefan ^c   Wagner, Norman ^d   Becker, Rolf ^e   Bieberstein, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Mathematical Solutions and Engineering   (Germany)

^d BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^e IDS SCHEER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBANKMENTS; FLAT CABLES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEVEES; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; PROBES; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS;

CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LONG TERM OBSERVATIONS; NEW MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT PROFILES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLOOD; LEVEE; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 79551666988     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007073     Document Type: Article

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