Using sound to evaluate standing timber

International Forestry Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-44

  Ross, Robert R ^a  

^a FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0011312939     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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