RETRACTED:Detection of Permafrost Subgrade Using GPR: A Case Examination on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Zhenwei Guo^1*, Hefeng Dong¹, Jianping Xiao²

¹Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
²The Institute of Geoscience and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, China.

DOI: 10.4236/gep.2015.35005                

Abstract

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Keywords

Ground Penetrating Radar, Qinghai-Tibet Railway Ballast, Permafrost, Predictive Deconvolution

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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