High-resolution water content estimation from surface-based ground-penetrating radar reflection data by impedance inversion

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Schmelzbach, C ^a,b,c   Tronicke, J ^a   Dietrich, P ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON MID POINTS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; CONTENT STRUCTURE; DATA PRECONDITIONING; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; DIRECT-PUSH; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMPEDANCE INVERSION; IN-SITU; LIMITED RESOLUTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PROPAGATION EFFECT; REFLECTION AMPLITUDE; REFLECTION DATA; SATURATED ZONE; SEDIMENTARY AQUIFERS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SUBSURFACE WATERS; SURFACE-BASED; SYNTHETIC DATASETS; VELOCITY ANALYSIS; WAVE VELOCITY;

AQUIFERS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MODELS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

PERMITTIVITY;

AQUIFER; DATA SET; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MAPPING; PERMITTIVITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REFLECTIVITY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; VELOCITY PROFILE; WATER CONTENT; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84864837511     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011955     Document Type: Article

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