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Case Histories of GPR for Animal Burrows Mapping and Geometry. GPR用于动物洞穴测绘和几何的案例历史。

Journal of environmental & engineering geophysics Pub Date : 2019-04-10 DOI: 10.2113/jeeg24.1.1

Laura Sherrod, William Sauck, Edward Simpson, Dale Werkema, Jarred Swiontek

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