Joint estimation of soil moisture profile and hydraulic parameters by ground-penetrating radar data assimilation with maximum likelihood ensemble filter

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3131-3146

  Tran, Anh Phuong ^a   Vanclooster, Marnik ^a   Zupanski, Milija ^b   Lambot, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

ground penetrating radar; hydrodynamic model; joint state parameter estimation; maximum likelihood ensemble assimilation; soil moisture profile; surface soil moisture

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ESTIMATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; SOIL MOISTURE PROFILES; STATE PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TYPE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84899039299     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014583     Document Type: Article

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