Articles | Volume 23, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3653-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3653-2019
Research article
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10 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 10 Sep 2019

Efficient estimation of effective hydraulic properties of stratal undulating surface layer using time-lapse multi-channel GPR

Xicai Pan, Stefan Jaumann, Jiabao Zhang, and Kurt Roth

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This study suggests an efficient approach to obtain plot-scale soil hydraulic properties for the shallow structural soils via non-invasive ground-penetrating radar measurements. Facilitated by spatial information of lateral water flow, this approach is more efficient than the widely used inversion approaches relying on intensive soil moisture monitoring. The acquisition of such quantitative information is of great interest to fields such as hydrology and precision agriculture.