Towards the in-forest assessment of Kraft pulp yield: Comparing the performance of laboratory and hand-held instruments and their value in screening breeding trials

Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 421-429

  Meder, Roger ^a   Brawner, Jeremy T ^a   Downes, Geoffrey M ^a,b   Ebdon, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Cellulose; Hand held NIR; Kraft pulp yield (KPY); Near infrared spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955207250     PISSN: 09670335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1255/jnirs.954     Document Type: Article

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