ROXAS - An efficient and accurate tool to detect vessels in diffuse-porous species

IAWA Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 425-432

  Wegner, Lena ^a   Eilmann, Britta ^b   Sass Klaassen, Ute ^a   Von Arx, Georg ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

automatic vessel detection; novel techniques; robust chronologies; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890062507     PISSN: 09281541     EISSN: 22941932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22941932-00000034     Document Type: Article

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