Evaluation of land-management options for dryland salinity: The next step after airborne geophysical interpretation

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 127-135

  Daamen, Carl C ^a   Hoxley, Greg P ^a   Collett, Keith O ^a   Patrick, Kim J ^a   Shephard, Peter ^a  

^a SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ   (Australia)

Author keywords

Groundwater modelling; Land management; Plant water use; Salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009348416     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: 18347533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG02127     Document Type: Article

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