Calibration of time domain reflectometry for forest soil humus layers

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 589-595

  Pumpanen, Jukka ^a   Ilvesniemi, Hannu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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