Predicting the internal quality and value of Norway spruce trees by using two non-parametric nearest neighbor methods

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 85-94

  Malinen, Jukka ^a   Maltamo, Matti ^a   Verkasalo, Erkki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); FORESTRY; LUMBER; QUALITY CONTROL; WOOD;

INTERNAL QUALITY;

SAWING;

FORESTRY; LUMBER; PICEA; QUALITY CONTROL; SAWING; WOOD; WOOD DECAY;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 0037883383     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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