Creating finite-difference time-domain models of commercial ground-penetrating radar antennas using Taguchi's optimization method

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Warren, Craig ^a   Giannopoulos, Antonios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; OSTWALD RIPENING; RADAR ANTENNAS;

3D FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); GROUND PENETRATING RADAR ANTENNAS; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; SIMULATED RESPONSE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMITTIVITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EID: 84857240541     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3548506     Document Type: Article

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