Mapping shallow soil moisture profiles at the field scale using full-waveform inversion of ground penetrating radar data

Geoderma

Volumn 161, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 225-237

  Minet, Julien ^a   Wahyudi, Agung ^a   Bogaert, Patrick ^a   Vanclooster, Marnik ^a   Lambot, Sébastien ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital soil mapping; Ground penetrating radar; Layered media; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; BELGIUM; DIELECTRIC PROFILES; DIFFERENTIAL GPS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SCALE; FREQUENCY RANGES; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LAYERED MEDIA; LAYERED MODEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROFILE INVERSION; REAL-TIME DATA ACQUISITION; REAL-TIME MAPPING; SHALLOW SOILS; SOIL MAPPING; SOIL MOISTURE PROFILES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADAR; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL MAPPING; GPS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; REAL TIME; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BELGIUM;

EID: 79951578376     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.12.023     Document Type: Article

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