Generating 3D sawlogs with a process-based growth model

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 184, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 337-354

  Mäkelä, Annikki ^a   Mäkinen, Harri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon balance; External knots; Hierarchical model; Internal knots; Pinus sylvestris; Stem structure; Timber quality

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TIMBER;

SAWLOGS; STEMS;

FORESTRY;

GEOMETRY; GROWTH MODELING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WOOD QUALITY;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0042239330     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00152-X     Document Type: Article

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