Estimation of soil hydraulic parameters in the field by integrated hydrogeophysical inversion of time-lapse ground-penetrating radar data

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Jadoon, Khan Zaib ^a,b   Weihermüller, Lutz ^a   Scharnagl, Benedikt ^a,c   Kowalsky, Michael B ^d   Bechtold, Michel ^a,e   Hubbard, Susan S ^d   Vereecken, Harry ^a   Lambot, Sébastien ^a,f  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Institute of Agricultural Climate Research   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SCALE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; HYDROGEOPHYSICAL; HYDRUS-1D; MACROPORES; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; PLANAR LAYERED MEDIA; POROSITY MODELS; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER DYNAMICS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; UNSATURATED SOIL; WATER CONTENT PROFILES; WATER DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROSITY; SOIL MOISTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84870402494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0177     Document Type: Article

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