Estimating vadose zone hydraulic properties using ground penetrating radar: The impact of prior information

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Scholer, Marie ^a   Irving, James ^a   Binley, Andrew ^b   Holliger, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; CRITICAL ISSUES; DATA YIELDS; FIELD DATA; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; HYDROLOGICAL PROPERTIES; INFORMATIVE PRIORS; INITIAL STATE; OBSERVED DATA; PARAMETER CORRELATION; POTENTIAL MODEL; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; PRIOR INFORMATION; SOIL PROPERTY; STEADY STATE; UNSATURATED ZONE; VADOSE ZONE;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATABASE; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 80054987984     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010409     Document Type: Article

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