Root orientation can affect detection accuracy of ground-penetrating radar

Plant and Soil

Volumn 373, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 317-327

  Tanikawa, Toko ^a   Hirano, Yasuhiro ^b   Dannoura, Masako ^c   Yamase, Keitarou ^d   Aono, Kenji ^e   Ishii, Masahiro ^e   Igarashi, Tetsurou ^e   Ikeno, Hidetoshi ^f   Kanazawa, Yoichi ^g  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Hyogo Prefectural Technology Center for Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries   (Japan)

^e The General Environmental Technos Co Ltd   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^g KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Coarse root; Grid transect; Nondestructive root method; Root angle; Root diameter

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMPLITUDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CORRELATION; DIAMETER; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSECT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888295676     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1798-6     Document Type: Article

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