Taming the non-linearity problem in GPR full-waveform inversion for high contrast media

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 174-186

  Meles, Giovanni ^a   Greenhalgh, Stewart ^a,b   der Kruk, Jan van ^c   Green, Alan ^a   Maurer, Hansruedi ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bandwidth expansion; FDTD; Frequency domain; GPR; Inversion; Stability; Time domain

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH EXPANSIONS; FDTD; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GPR; INVERSION; TIME DOMAIN;

BANDWIDTH; CONTRAST MEDIA; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; NONLINEARITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79651473040     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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