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@ARTICLE{Lambot:52911,
author = {Lambot, S. and Antoine, M. and Vanclooster, M. and Slob, E.
C.},
title = {{E}ffect of soil roughness on the inversion of off-ground
monostatic {GPR} signal for noninvasive quantification of
soil properties},
journal = {Water resources research},
volume = {42},
issn = {0043-1397},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {AGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-52911},
pages = {W03403},
year = {2006},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {[1] We report on a laboratory experiment that investigates
the effect of soil surface roughness on the identification
of the soil electromagnetic properties from full-wave
inversion of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data in the
frequency domain. The GPR system consists of an ultrawide
band stepped-frequency continuous-wave radar combined with
an off-ground monostatic horn antenna. Radar measurements
were performed above a rectangular container filled with a
loose sandy soil subject to seven water contents and four
random surface roughnesses, including a smooth surface as
reference. Compared to previous studies, we have reduced the
modeling error of the GPR signal for the smooth surface case
thanks to improved antenna transfer functions by solving an
overdetermined system of equations based on six model
configurations instead of only three. Then, the continuously
increasing effect of surface roughness on the radar signal
with respect to frequency is clearly observed. In close
accordance with Rayleigh's criterion, both the radar signal
and the inversely estimated parameters are not significantly
affected if the surface protuberances are smaller than one
eighth of a wavelength. In addition, when this criterion is
not respected, errors are made in the estimated parameters,
but the inverse solution remains stable. This demonstrates
the promising perspectives for application of GPR for
noninvasive water content estimation in agricultural and
environmental field applications.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-IV},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB50},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Environmental Sciences / Limnology / Water Resources},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000236272800004},
doi = {10.1029/2005WR004416},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/52911},
}