Application of ground-penetrating radar to measure near-saturation soil water content in peat soils

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Parsekian, Andrew D ^a,b   Slater, Lee ^a   Giménez, Daniel ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON; GASES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUNDWATER; MIXING; PEAT; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR ANTENNAS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER CONTENT; WETLANDS;

CALIBRATION FUNCTIONS; DIELECTRIC MIXING MODEL; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR ANTENNAS; PARTICLE ORIENTATION;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CALIBRATION; CARBON CYCLE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; METHANE; PEAT SOIL; PEATLAND; PERMITTIVITY; SATURATION; SOIL GAS; SOIL WATER;

EID: 84857824111     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011303     Document Type: Article

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