Phase and amplitude inversion of crosswell radar data

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ellefsen, Karl J ^a   Mazzella, Aldo T ^b   Horton, Robert J ^a   McKenna, Jason R ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

CROSS-WELL RADARS; FAR-FIELD REGION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HETEROGENEOUS MODELING; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; RELATIVE DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING;

SEISMOLOGY;

BACK PROPAGATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; INVERSE PROBLEM; MODELING; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 84857331254     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3554412     Document Type: Article

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