3-D visualization of soil macroporosity using x-ray CAT scanning

Canadian Agricultural Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 249-261

  Perret, J ^a   Prasher, S O ^a   Kantzas, A ^b   Langford, C ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; POROSITY; VISUALIZATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

PV WAVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOIL MACROPORE STRUCTURE;

SOILS;

SOIL MACROPOROSITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031251707     PISSN: 0045432X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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