Forests play a key role in global ecosystem conservation and environmental maintenance.
Forestry, which includes plant active components, germplasm resources and vegetation …

The purpose of this review is to report on the state-of-the-art on the interaction of moisture
with natural materials and fabricated biomimetic functional materials, with an emphasis upon …

Predicting the properties of structural timber using a rapid and reliable non-destructive
method is a critical quality control task in production. This study investigates using infrared …

Finding methods to classify heterogeneous logging wastes from sustainable forest
management in the Brazilian Amazonia is essential to increase the production and quality of …

The content of water in fiber suspension and affects pulp refining, bleaching and draining
operations. Cellulose pulp dryness estimate through near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy …

Solutions to differentiate wood wastes in the storage yard of a charcoal production unit in
Amazonia, where identification is often mistaken due to broad morphological similarity of …

Moisture is one of the most important wood properties because its variation directly
influences the material strength and density. Thus, the aim of this study was to develop near …

This study focused on the use of Near InfraRed (NIR) Spectroscopy to address the lack of
tools and skills for wood identification of Dalbergia species from Madagascar. Two sample …

ABSTRACT A chemistry-based explainable machine learning (ML) approach was used to
predict wood properties using near infrared (NIR) spectral data collected from rough and …

Aim of study: To verify how well near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is able to discriminate
wood specimens from natural and planted forests. This study was carried out using tropical …