Electrical resistivity tomography of the root zone

Soil- Water- Root Processes: Advances in Tomography and Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 223-245

  Furman, Alex ^a   Arnon Zur, Ali ^b   Assouline, Shmuel ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agricultural practice; Electrical resistivity tomography; Irrigation management; Root scale process; Root zone; Root zone mapping; Spatial resolution; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85140938932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaspecpub61.c11     Document Type: Chapter

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