Validation of ground penetrating radar full-waveform inversion for field scale soil moisture mapping

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 424-425, Issue , 2012, Pages 112-123

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dielectric permittivity; Errors; Ground penetrating radar; Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; DATA INVERSION; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; FIELD SCALE; FIELD-SCALE SOIL MOISTURE; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; LOCAL MODEL; MODELING ERRORS; MOISTURE SENSING; REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SOIL CORES; SOIL MOISTURE MAPPING; SOIL MOISTURE MAPS; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS; UNCERTAINTIES;

ERRORS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MAPPING; PERMITTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA INVERSION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; PRECISION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856784386     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.12.034     Document Type: Article

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