Spatial Time Domain Reflectometry (Spatial TDR) - Principles, limitations and accuracy

Unsaturated Soils: Advances in Geo-Engineering - Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, E-UNSAT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 181-187

  Becker, R ^a   Scheuermann, A ^b   Schlaeger, S ^c   Huebner, C ^d   Wagner, N ^e  

^a IDS SCHEER AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c SCHLAEGER Mathematical Solutions and Engineering   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL PARAMETER; INVERSE MODELLING; MOISTURE PROBE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROCESS; SOIL MOISTURE PROFILES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY SIGNALS; TRANSMISSION-LINE; WATER CONTENT PROFILES;

ALGORITHMS; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WATER CONTENT;

EID: 79952285186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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