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Integrating GPR and CCRI techniques: Implications for the identification and mapping of ground ice on Mars

1Pablo A. Wainstein, 1Jean-Michel Wan Bun Tseung1,2Brian J. Moorman and 1Christopher W. Stevens

1Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mars 4, 1-13, 2008 | doi:10.1555/mars.2008.0001
Received April 23, 2007 | Accepted January 31, 2008 | Published April 14, 2008

Our results show that GPR and CCRI techniques effectively complement each other by resolving different characteristics of the subsurface. While GPR clearly showed the subsurface structures and interfaces, CCRI provided diagnostic information about the subsurface lithologies.

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