Recent Advances in Nondestructive Evaluation of Wood: In-Forest Wood Quality Assessments

Abstract

Effcient wood production and utilization requires knowing the wood quality attributes of forest resources relevant to various end uses, prescribing appropriate silvicultural treatments that positively influence wood quality, and then, at the time of harvesting, sorting and allocating standing timbers to the most appropriate markets [1–3]. The field of forestry has many widely accepted field tools, sampling procedures, and models for gathering and summarizing data and making projections of growth, yield, and tree size; however, counterparts for wood quality assessment have lagged behind [3]. One of the reasons for this lag has been a lack of simple field tools permitting rapid collection of wood quality data from trees in a stand or sample plot.

Citation

Wang, Xiping. 2021. Recent Advances in Nondestructive Evaluation of Wood: In-Forest Wood Quality Assessments. Forests. 12(7): 949. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12070949.