Research On The Performance Of The Ultrasonic Measurement System Of The Tree Canopy Volume

Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 591-600

  Hu, Kaiqun ^a   Fu, Zetian ^b  

^a CHONGQING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy volume; manual measurement method; precision; stability; ultrasonic measurement system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876236492     PISSN: 10798587     EISSN: 2326005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10798587.2012.10643268     Document Type: Article

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