Ground-penetrating radar-based automatic reconstruction of three-dimensional coarse root system architecture

Plant and Soil

Volumn 383, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 155-172

  Wu, Yuan ^a   Guo, Li ^a   Cui, Xihong ^a   Chen, Jin ^a   Cao, Xin ^a   Lin, Henry ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysical technique; In situ; Non invasive; Root investigation; Root topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939886032     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: 15735036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-014-2139-0     Document Type: Article

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