Feasibility of automatic detection of knots in maritime pine timber by acousto-ultrasonic scanning

Wood Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-284

  Machado, José Saporiti ^a   Sardinha, Raúl Albuquerque ^b   Cruz, Helena Pires ^a  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

ACOUSTO-ULTRASONIC SCANNING; KNOT AREA RATIO (KAR); ROOT MEAN SQUARE (RMS) VOLTAGE;

TIMBER;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETERS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES;

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 4043118425     PISSN: 00437719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00226-004-0224-x     Document Type: Article

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