Development of calibration algorithms for selected water content reflectometry probes for burned and non-burned organic soils of Alaska

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 961-975

  Bourgeau Chavez, Laura L ^a   Garwood, Gordon C ^b   Riordan, Kevin ^c   Koziol, Benjamin W ^a   Slawski, James ^c  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arbor Consulting   (United States)

^c GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

aspen; black spruce; duff; feather moss; fire disturbed soils; soil moisture; sphagnum moss; TDR; water content reflectometers; WCR; white spruce.

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 78149453058     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF07175     Document Type: Article

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