Observation of volumetric water content and reflector depth with multichannel ground-penetrating radar in an artificial sand volume

2011 6th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Buchner, Jens S ^a   Kühne, Alexander ^a   Antz, Benny ^a   Roth, Kurt ^a   Wollschläger, Ute ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ground Penetrating Radar; Multichannel GPR; Subsurface Geometry; Surface GPR; Volumetric Water Content

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SAND; ARTIFICIAL SOILS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT SETUP; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTI-CHANNEL GPR; RAY-PATH MODELS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SUB-SURFACE GEOMETRIES; TEST SITE; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RADAR; REFLECTION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER CONTENT;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052081117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWAGPR.2011.5963910     Document Type: Conference Paper

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