Predicting wood decay and density using NIR spectroscopy

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 414-423

  Stirling, Rod ^a   Trung, Thanh ^b   Breuil, Colette ^a   Bicho, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PAPRICAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decay; Lodgepole pine; Near infrared spectroscopy (NIR); Partial least squares (PLS) models; Wood chips; Wood density

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROCESS CONTROL; PULP MANUFACTURE; SOFTWOODS;

PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE MODEL;

WOOD;

CHIPS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PINUS CONTORTA; PROCESS CONTROL; PULP QUALITY; WOOD DECAY; WOOD DENSITY; YIELD;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 34547794792     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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