Automatic grading of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sawlogs using an industrial X-ray log scanner

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 41, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 63-75

  Oja, Johan ^a,b   Wallbäcks, Lars ^c   Grundberg, Stig ^a,b   Hägerdal, Erik ^c   Grönlund, Anders ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Institute for Wood Technology Research   (Sweden)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Sawlogs; Scanning; X ray

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FORESTRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; RAW MATERIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAWMILLS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

LOG SCANNERS;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

IMAGING METHOD; TIMBER INDUSTRY; X-RAY;

DENSITY; FORESTRY; OPTIMIZATION; PINUS SOSNOWSKYI; RAW MATERIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAW MILLS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0242507748     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1699(03)00042-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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