Preliminary use of ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography to study tree roots in pine forests and poplar plantations

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1047-1058

  Zenone, Terenzio ^a,b   Morelli, Gianfranco ^c   Teobaldelli, Maurizio ^b   Fischanger, Federico ^c   Matteucci, Marco ^b   Sordini, Matteo ^d   Armani, Alessio ^c   Ferrè, Chiara ^e   Chiti, Tommaso ^f   Seufert, Guenther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c Geostudi Astier   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

ERT; GPR; Root biomass assessment; Root detection

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIOMASS; CLAY MINERALS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOILS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST HEIGHTS; D LINES; DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITIES; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHIES; ENTIRE SYSTEMS; ERT; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; GPR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HIGH DENSITIES; HIGH FREQUENCY ANTENNAS; LASER SCANS; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATIONS; PENETRATING RADARS; PINE FORESTS; PINE TREES; PINUS PINASTERS; PINUS PINEA; POPLAR PLANTATIONS; POPLAR TREES; ROOT BIOMASS ASSESSMENT; ROOT DETECTION; ROOT SYSTEMS; SMALL DIAMETERS; SOIL MODELS; TEST SECTIONS; TREE ROOTS; UNSATURATED SOILS; WATER SATURATIONS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MAPPING METHOD; PLANTATION; RECONSTRUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMASS; CLAY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADIOGRAPHY; ROOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

PINUS PINASTER; PINUS PINEA; POPULUS;

EID: 55949102342     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP08062     Document Type: Article

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