Improved characterization of fine-texture soils using on-ground GPR full-waveform inversion

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3947-3958

  Busch, Sebastian ^a   Van Der Kruk, Jan ^a   Vereecken, Harry ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; conductivity; deconvolution; electromagnetic measurements; frequency domain analysis; ground penetrating radar (GPR); permittivity; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; TEXTURES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRO-MAGNETIC RESISTIVITIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; SOIL CHARACTERIZATION; WAVELETS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA; CLAY; DATA SET; DECONVOLUTION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; PERMITTIVITY; SILT; SOIL TEXTURE; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896401195     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278297     Document Type: Article

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