Articles | Volume 24, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-159-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-159-2020
Research article
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14 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 14 Jan 2020

Reflection tomography of time-lapse GPR data for studying dynamic unsaturated flow phenomena

Adam R. Mangel, Stephen M. J. Moysey, and John Bradford

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Water flows through soils in an incredibly complex network of pathways. Understanding these pathways is critical to sustainable use of water resources. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) can image water in near-surface soils the same way an X-ray is used to image the human body. Utilizing innovative ways of collecting and processing the GPR data, we can image complex water flow in space and through time, which allows for the continued development of our ideas and models of subsurface water flow.