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Using High Resolution Computed Tomography to Visualize the Three Dimensional Structure and Function of Plant Vasculature
Published on: April 5, 2013
Correction: Vázquez-Arellano, M., et al. 3-D Imaging Systems for Agricultural Applications-A Review. Sensors 2016,
Manuel Vázquez-Arellano1, Hans W Griepentrog2, David Reiser3
1Institute of Agricultural Engineering, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 9, Stuttgart 70599, Germany. mvazquez@uni-hohenheim.de.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 12, 2016
Abstract:
The authors wish to make the following corrections to Table 1 of the title paper [1]: the working environment of the PlantEye platform should be changed from "Greenhouse" to "Open field, Greenhouse" and the shadowing device of the Scanalyzer platform should be changed from "'√" to "x". [...].
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