A novel method to visualize and characterize preferential flow in undisturbed soil cores by using multislice helical CT

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sammartino, Stéphane ^a   Michel, Eric ^a   Capowiez, Yvan ^b  

^a UAPV   (France)

^b Domaine Saint Paul   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; DETECTION THRESHOLD; FAST ACQUISITION; HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; HELICAL CT; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MACRO-POROSITY; MACROPORE FLOW; MACROPORES; MOBILE WATER; MULTI SLICES; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RAINFALL EVENT; SATURATED SOILS; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SOIL CORES; STATIONARY FLOW; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING METHODS; TIME-RESOLVED; TRANSIENT FLOW; UNDISTURBED SOILS; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; WATER FILLING; WATER FILM;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POROUS MATERIALS; RAIN; SOILS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

MACROPORE; POROUS MEDIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT FLOW; VOLUME;

EID: 84858251058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0100     Document Type: Article

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