Assessment of the three-dimensional architecture of walnut trees using digitising

Silva Fennica

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 265-273

  Sinoquet, Hervé ^a   Rivet, Pierre ^a   Godin, Christophe ^b  

^a PIAF   (France)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

Digitising; Geometry; Jugions regia L.; Shoot level; Topology; Tree architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000970858     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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