Characterization of some Middle European soil textures by gamma-spectrometry

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 651-660

  Petersen, Hauke ^a   Wunderlich, Tina ^a   Attia Al Hagrey, Said ^a   Rabbel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamma spectrometry; Geophysical pedotransfer functions (GPTF); Geophysics; Mobile geophysical mapping; Proximal soil sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872506666     PISSN: 14368730     EISSN: 15222624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jpln.201100408     Document Type: Article

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