Analysis of coniferous species to identify and distinguish juvenile and mature wood

M. Nawrot, W. Pazdrowski, R. Walkowiak, M. Szymański and K. Kaźmierczak
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M. Nawrot: Gołąbki Forest Division, Regional Directorate of State Forests in Toruń, Rogowo, Poland
W. Pazdrowski: Department of Forest Utilization, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland
R. Walkowiak: Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Faculty of Agronomy and Bioengineering, Sub-department of Biometry, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland
M. Szymański: Wielkopolska' Agriculture Advisory Centre in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
K. Kaźmierczak: Department of Forest Management, Institute of Dendrometry and Forest Productivity Science, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland

Journal of Forest Science, 2014, vol. 60, issue 4, 143-153

Abstract: We conducted to describe methods used to differentiate the zones of juvenile and mature wood in stems of coniferous species and to present the importance of good identification of the shares of both types of wood to ensure a rational use of the raw material and final quality of wood products. This study describes in more detail a novel method to separate the juvenile and mature wood tissue in stems of European larch using cluster analysis in the form of the k-means algorithm. Moreover, guidelines were also shortly described for forest management which could result in a reduction of the share of juvenile wood in stems of forest trees.

Keywords: differentiation methods; k-means algorithm; forest management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.17221/78/2013-JFS

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