Developing and evaluating a multisite and multispecies NIR calibration for the prediction of Kraft pulp yield in eucalypts

Southern Forests

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-164

  Downes, G M ^a,b   Meder, R ^a   Hicks, C ^a   Ebdon, N ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Co operative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus; Kraft pulp yield

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 77951879809     PISSN: 20702620     EISSN: 20702639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/SF.2009.71.2.11.826     Document Type: Article

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