Ground-penetrating radar accurately locates tree roots in two soil media under pavement

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 160-166

  Bassuk, Nina ^a   Grabosky, Jason ^b   Mucciardi, Anthony ^c   Raffel, Gary ^d  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TreeRadar Inc   (United States)

^d Dynamic Tree Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

CU Structural Soil; Root Counting; Root Detection; Root Mapping; Root Morphology; Soil Excavation; Virtual Trench

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; DETECTION METHOD; EXCAVATION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MAPPING; MORPHOLOGY; PAVEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROOT; SOIL; TREE;

ACER; ACER PLATANOIDES;

EID: 79960106737     PISSN: 02785226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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