Measurements of leaf water content using terahertz radiation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 142-149

  Hadjiloucas, Sillas ^a   Karatzas, Lucas S ^a   Bowen, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersive fourier transform spectrometer; Leaf water content, null balance transmissometer; Pseudocoherence; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; WATER;

DISPERSIVE FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; LEAF WATER CONTENT; NULL-BALANCE TRANSMISSOMETERS;

MICROWAVE SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0033078035     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.744288     Document Type: Article

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