Comment on: "root orientation can affect detection accuracy of ground-penetrating radar"

Plant and Soil

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 441-444

  Wu, Yuan ^a   Guo, Li ^a   Li, Wentao ^a   Cui, Xihong ^a   Chen, Jin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coarse root; Grid transect; Nondestructive root method; Root angle; Root diameter; Root orientation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMPLITUDE; CALIBRATION; DETECTION METHOD; DIAMETER; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; ROOT SYSTEM;

EID: 84903526856     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-014-2124-7     Document Type: Article

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