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@PHDTHESIS{Klotzsche:139929,
author = {Klotzsche, Anja},
title = {{F}ull-waveform inversion of crosshole {GPR} data for
hydrogeological applications},
volume = {193},
school = {RWTH Aachen},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2013-05898},
isbn = {978-3-89336-915-7},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich Reihe Energie $\&$
Umwelt / Energy $\&$ Environment},
pages = {X. 164 S.},
year = {2013},
note = {Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, 2013},
abstract = {High resolution and precise characterization of aquifers is
needed to improve the understanding of flow and solute
transport processes. Decimeter-scale and high
contraststructures caused by changes in the porosity or clay
content can have a dominant effect on hydraulic processes
within an aquifer. Such heterogeneities or layering in
aquifers can be related to preferential flow paths or
impermeable clay lenses and can act as electromagnetic
low-velocity waveguides. Crosshole ground penetrating radar
is able to provide shallow subsurface electrical properties,
viz. dielectric permittivity and electrical conductivity,
and has proven a powerful tool to map and characterize
aquifers due to the method’s high resolution and
sensitivity to porosity and soil water content. Ray-based
methods, which incorporate only a small part of the measured
signal in the inversion, such as first-arrival travel times
and first-cycle amplitudes, are not able to detect such
layers. In contrast, the crosshole GPR full-waveform
inversion, which considers the entire waveform or
significant parts thereof, is able to resolve sub-wavelength
high resolution images and can detect high contrast layers.
Recently, a novel 2D time-domain vectorial full-waveform
crosshole radar inversion was introduced that significantly
improves the model resolution compared to standard ray-based
techniques. This GPR full-waveform inversion is modified by
allowing an optimized acquisition setup that significantly
reduces the acquisition time and computational costs. The
improved algorithm is employed to invert crosshole GPR data
acquired within a gravel aquifer in the Thur valley,
Switzerland, using the ray-based results as starting models.
Compared to the ray-based inversion, the results from the
full-waveform inversion show images with significantly
higher resolution. The simulated traces of the final model,
obtained by the full-waveform inversion, fit the observed
traces very well in the lower part of the section and
reasonably well in the upper part of the section. By
incorporating the vadose zone and the water table in the
starting models and inversion domain, we are able to improve
the initial results and resolve unprecedented sub-wavelength
high resolution images for permittivity and conductivity in
the entire inversion domain including a high permittivity
layer between 5 m - 6 m depth. This high permittivity layer
acts as an electromagnetic low-velocity waveguide and is
caused by an increased porosity indicating a [...]},
keywords = {Dissertation (GND)},
cin = {IBG-3},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {246 - Modelling and Monitoring Terrestrial Systems: Methods
and Technologies (POF2-246)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-246},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/139929},
}