Inversion of dispersive GPR pulse propagation in waveguides with heterogeneities and rough and dipping interfaces

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 88-96

  Van der Kruk, J ^a   Diamanti, N ^b   Giannopoulos, A ^c   Vereecken, H ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersion inversion; FDTD numerical modelling; GPR; Heterogeneous media; Interface roughness; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

3D FDTD; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DIPPING LAYERS; END-FIRE; GPR PULSE; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; INVERSION RESULTS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTI-OFFSET; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PERMITTIVITY VALUES; PROPERTY VALUE; RANDOM NOISE; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; SINGLE MODE; SURFACE WAVEGUIDES;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); STOCHASTIC MODELS; WAVEGUIDES;

INVERSION LAYERS;

BACKSCATTER; DATA INVERSION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMITTIVITY; PHASE VELOCITY; ROUGHNESS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84860620115     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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