Determination of leaf water content from terahertz time-domain spectroscopic data

Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 316-323

  Gente, R ^a   Born, N ^a   Voss N ^a   Sannemann, W ^b   Leon J ^b   Koch, M ^a   Castro Camus, E ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Barley; Drought; Plant; Stress; Terahertz; THz; Water

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM MODEL; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; PLANT; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; THZ; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT;

DROUGHT; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRESSES; TISSUE; WATER;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84876680612     PISSN: 18666892     EISSN: 18666906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10762-013-9972-8     Document Type: Article

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