Automatically operating radars for monitoring insect pest migrations

Insect Science

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 27-39

  Drake, Alistair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Insect migration; Pest forecasting; Radar monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642348320     PISSN: 16729609     EISSN: 17447917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2002.tb00169.x     Document Type: Article

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