Waterborne GPR survey for estimating bottom-sediment variability: A survey on the Po River, Turin, Italy

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Sambuelli, Luigi ^a   Calzoni, Corrado ^a   Pesenti, Manuele ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADAR REFLECTION;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; CONDUCTIVITY METERS; CONTINUOUS PROFILE; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; RIVERBED SEDIMENTS; SCATTERING PHENOMENON; WATER CONDUCTIVITY;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BATHYMETRY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; PERMITTIVITY; RIVER BED; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; PO RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TORINO [PIEDMONT]; TURIN;

EID: 84958535935     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3119262     Document Type: Article

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