Full-wave inversion of ground-penetrating radar data for forest litter characterization

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 196-201

  Andre F ^a   Jonard, M ^a   Lambot, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

forest litter; frequency dependence; ground penetrating radar (GPR); scattering

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHARACTERIZATION; DATA HANDLING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SOILS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

APPARENT ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; CONSTITUTIVE PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; FOREST LITTER; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); PRECISE DETERMINATIONS;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

DATA; ECOSYSTEMS; RADAR;

EID: 84919657837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGPR.2014.6970413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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