Various applications are currently available for Android that allows the estimation of tree heights by using the 3D accelerometer on smartphones. Some make the estimation using the image o…

While we hear a lot about the wonders of materials like graphene and carbon nanotubes, nanofibrillated cellulose also shows a lot of promise. Nanofibrillated cellulose (Cellulose NanoFib…

Moisture content is an important quality parameter of wood chips, strongly influencing the net calorific value as received, and consequently the price of fuel chips.  The oven-drying meth…

A small, lightweight mobile laser scanning device is proving a boon for forestry resource management. Successful trials of the ZEB1 hand held scanner by Scion’s Forest Systems staff has dem…

Scratch resistance is an important attribute with regard to service life and aesthetics of coatings used on appearance wood products. In its quest for developing better performing coating…

Climate change is creating an increasingly dynamic forest structure and there is a need to collect data more frequently in order to maintain up-to-date information for forest management. …

Research activities combining lidar and radar remote sensing have increased in recent years. The main focus in combining lidar-radar forest remote sensing has been on the retrieval of the a…