Application of ground penetrating radar for coarse root detection and quantification: A review

Plant and Soil

Volumn 362, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Guo, Li ^a   Chen, Jin ^a   Cui, Xihong ^a   Fan, Bihang ^a   Lin, Henry ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse root; Ground penetrating radar; Root detection; Root quantification; Root system

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MAPPING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871484497     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1455-5     Document Type: Review

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