Design and application of CITESwoodID computer-aided identification and description of CITES-protected timbers

IAWA Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-220

  Koch, Gerald ^a   Richter, Hans Georg ^a   Schmitt, Uwe ^a  

^a Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas Forestry and Fisheries   (Germany)

Author keywords

CITESwoodID; Database; Macroscopic wood identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958079297     PISSN: 09281541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22941932-90000052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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