James Irving

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Research Papers:

  1. Scholer, M., Irving, J., Looms, M., Nielsen, L., and Holliger, K. Bayesian Markov-chain-Monte-Carlo inversion of time-lapse crosshole ground-penetrating radar data to characterize the vadose zone at the Arrenaes field site, Denmark. Vadose Zone Journal, in press.
  2. Belina, F., Irving, J., Ernst, J., and Holliger, K. Waveform inversion of crosshole georadar data: influence of source wavelet variability and the suitability of a single wavelet assumption. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, in press.
  3. Belina, F., Irving, J., Ernst, J., and Holliger, K. Analysis of an iterative deconvolution approach for estimating the source wavelet during waveform inversion of crosshole georadar data. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 78: 20-30, 2012.
  4. Belina, F., Irving, J., Ernst, J., and Holliger, K. Evaluation of the reconstruction limits of a frequency-independent crosshole georadar waveform inversion scheme in the presence of dispersion. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 78: 9-19, 2012.
  5. Scholer, M., Irving, J., Binley, A., and Holliger, K. Estimating vadose zone hydraulic properties using ground-penetrating radar: the impact of prior information. Water Resources Research, 47, W10512, doi:10.1029/2011WR010409, 2011.
  6. Koch, K., Kemna, A., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. Impact of controlled changes in grain size and pore characteristics on the hydraulic conductivity and spectral induced polarization response of "proxies" of alluvial sediments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15: 1785-1794, 2011.
  7. Dafflon, B., Irving, J., and Barrash, W. Inversion of multiple intersecting high-resolution crosshole GPR profiles for hydrological characterization at the Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 73: 305-314, 2011.
  8. Irving, J., Scholer, M., and Holliger, K. Estimation of the correlation structure of crustal velocity heterogeneity from seismic reflection data. Geophysical Journal International, 183(3): 1408-1428, 2010.
  9. Irving, J. and Singha, K. Stochastic inversion of tracer test and electrical geophysical data to estimate hydraulic conductivities. Water Resources Research, 46, W11514, doi:10.1029/2009WR008340, 2010.
  10. Irving, J. and Holliger, K. Geostatistical inversion of seismic and ground-penetrating radar reflection images: what can we actually resolve? Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L21306, doi:10.1029/2010GL044852, 2010.
  11. Irving, J., Scholer, M., and Holliger, K. Inversion for the stochastic structure of subsurface velocity heterogeneity from surface‐based geophysical reflection images. In Advances in Near‐Surface Seismology and Ground‐Penetrating Radar, edited by R. Miller, J. Bradford, and K. Holliger, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2010.
  12. Dafflon, B., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. Calibration of high-resolution geophysical data with tracer test measurements to improve hydrological predictions. Advances in Water Resources, 33(1): 55-68, 2010.
  13. Irving, J., Knight, R., and Holliger, K. Estimation of the lateral correlation structure of subsurface water content from surface-based ground-penetrating radar reflection images. Water Resources Research, 45, W12404, doi:10.1029/2008WR007471, 2009.
  14. Dafflon, B., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. Use of high-resolution geophysical data to characterize heterogeneous aquifers: influence of data integration method on hydrological predictions. Water Resources Research, 45, W09407, doi:10.1029/2008WR007646, 2009.
  15. Dafflon, B., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. Quantitative integration of high-resolution hydrogeophysical data: a novel approach to Monte-Carlo-type conditional stochastic simulations and implications for hydrological predictions. Journal of Earth Science, 20(3): 580-591, 2009.
  16. Dafflon, B., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. Simulated-annealing-based conditional simulation using high-resolution geophysical data for the local-scale characterization of heterogeneous aquifers. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 68(1): 60-70, 2009.
  17. Irving, J., Knoll, M., and Knight, R. Improving crosshole radar velocity tomograms: a new approach to incorporating high-angle traveltime data. Geophysics, 72(4): J31-J41, 2007.
  18. Knight, R., Irving, J., Tercier, P., Freeman, G., Murray, C., and Rockhold, M. A comparison of the use of radar images and neutron probe data to determine the horizontal correlation length of water content. In Subsurface Hydrology: Data Integration for Properties and Processes, edited by D.W. Hyndman, F.D. Day-Lewis, and K. Singha, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series Volume 171, doi:10.1029/170GM01, 2007.
  19. Irving, J. and Knight, R. Numerical modeling of ground-penetrating radar in 2-D using MATLAB. Computers & Geosciences, 32(9): 1247-1258, 2006. [associated codes]
  20. Irving, J. and Knight, R. Numerical modeling of antenna transmission and reception for crosshole ground-penetrating radar. Geophysics, 71(2): K37-K45, 2006.
  21. Irving, J. and Knight, R. Effect of antenna length on velocity estimates obtained from crosshole GPR data. Geophysics, 70(5): K39-K42, 2005.
  22. Knight, R., Tercier, P., and Irving, J. The effect of vertical measurement resolution on the correlation structure of a ground-penetrating radar reflection image. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L21607, doi:10.1029/2004GL021112, 2004.
  23. Irving, J. and Knight, R. Removal of wavelet dispersion from ground-penetrating radar data. Geophysics, 68(3): 960-970, 2003.

Refereed Conference Proceedings:

  1. Minsley, B., Irving, J., Abraham, J.D., and Smith, B.D.  Stochastic methods for model assessment of airborne frequency-domain electromagnetic data.  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ASEG Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, February 2012.
  2. Ruggeri, P., Gloaguen, E., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. Integration of local-scale hydrological and regional-scale geophysical data based on a non-linear Bayesian sequential simulation approach. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Salzburg, Austria, September 2011.
  3. Ruggeri, P., Gloaguen, E., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. A non-linear Bayesian approach for upscaling local-scale hydraulic conductivity measurements based on local- and regional-scale geophysical data. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 30, 1348-1352, 2011.
  4. Ruggeri, P., Gloaguen, E., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. Multiple-scale hydrological and geophysical data integration through non-linear Bayesian sequential simulation. Proceedings of GeoHydro2011 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, August 2011.
  5. Scholer, M., Irving, J., Looms, M., Nielsen, L., and Holliger, K. Stochastic estimation of vadose zone hydraulic properties using time-lapse GPR data under natural loading and forced infiltration conditions. Proceedings of GeoHydro2011 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, August 2011.
  6. Irving, J. and Holliger, K. Geostatistical inversion of seismic and GPR reflection images: what can we actually resolve? SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 29, 1939-1943, 2010.
  7. Scholer, M., Irving, J., Binley, A., and Holliger, K. Estimation of vadose zone hydraulic properties from geophysical data using a Bayesian framework: effects of a correlated prior on posterior uncertainties. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 29, 3925-3929, 2010.
  8. Dafflon, B., Irving, J., and Barrash, W. Inversion of multiple intersecting high-resolution crosshole GPR profiles for hydrological characterization. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 29, 3919-3924, 2010.
  9. Scholer, M., Irving, J., Binley, A., and Holliger, K. Stochastic inversion of vadose zone properties: impact of parameter correlation on uncertainty estimates. Proceedings of the 16th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2010.
  10. Belina, F., Irving, J., Ernst, J., and Holliger, K. Source wavelet estimation during full-waveform inversion of ground-penetrating radar data. Proceedings of the 16th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2010.
  11. Koch, K., Irving, J., Holliger, K., and Kemna, A. Controlled changes in grain size and pore characteristics and their impact on the hydraulic conductivity and spectral induced polarization response of proxies of alluvial sediments, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 28, 1365-1369, 2009.
  12. Belina, F., Irving, J., Holliger, K., and Ernst, J. Evaluation of the viability and robustness of an iterative deconvolution approach for estimating the source wavelet during waveform inversion of crosshole ground-penetrating radar data, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 28, 1370-1374, 2009.
  13. Dafflon, B., Irving, J., and Holliger, K. Quantitative integration of high-resolution hydrogeophysical data: a novel approach to Monte-Carlo-type conditional stochastic simulations and implications for hydrological predictions. Proceedings of the International Conference on Environment and Engineering Geophysics, Wuhan, China, July 2008.
  14. Irving, J. and Knight, R. Accounting for the effect of antenna length to improve crosshole GPR velocity estimates, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 24, 1188-1191, 2005.
  15. Shragge, J., Irving, J., and Artman, B. Shot-profile migration of GPR data. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, 1, 337-340, 2004.
  16. Irving, J. and Knight, R. Saturation-dependent velocity anisotropy in borehole radar data. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems, San Antonio, TX, April 2003.
  17. Knight, R., Irving, J., Freeman, E., and Tercier, P. The use of ground-penetrating radar for site characterization at Hanford. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems, San Antonio, TX, April 2003.
  18. Irving, J. and Knight, R. Estimation and correction of wavelet dispersion in GPR data. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, SPIE, 4084, 561-566, 2000.