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Ultrasonic-Based Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Wood: A Primer and Historical Review

The authors conducted a review of ultrasonic testing and evaluation of wood and wood products, starting with a description of basic ultrasonic inspection setups and commonly used equations. The literature review primarily covered wood research presented between 1965 and 2013 in the Proceedings of the Nondestructive Testing of Wood Symposiums. A table that lists the...

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Author(s):

Adam C. Senalik; Greg Schueneman; Robert J. Ross

Year:

2014

Keywords:

Ultrasound, acoustic, nondestructive evaluation, wood, literature review

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USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, General Technical Report, FPL-GTR-235, 2014; 36 p.

Measuring wood quality in standing trees--a review

This report summarizes a state-of-the-art review conducted on the topic of field measurement of the quality of wood in trees. The foundation science of micro-resistance drilling and acoustic-based techniques for use with woody materials is presented, and use of these techniques for the detection of biodeterioration in wood is discussed. Quantification of the physical...

Author(s):

Mark Rudnicki; Xiping Wang; Robert J. Ross; R. Bruce Allison; Kevin Perzynski

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Decay, nondestructive evaluation, stiffness, trees, wood property, wood quality

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-248. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 13 p.

Advances and emerging issues in national forest inventories

National forest inventories (NFIs) have a long history, although their current major features date only to the early years of the twentieth century. Recent issues such as concern over the effects of acid deposition, biodiversity, forest sustainability, increased demand for forest data, international reporting requirements and climate change have led to the expansion of...

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts; Erkki O. Tomppo; Erik Naesset

Year:

2010

Keywords:

estimation, harmonization, interference, k-nearest neighbor, lidar, remote sensing

Source:

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 25: 368-381.

A meta-analysis and review of the literature on the k-Nearest Neighbors technique for forestry applications that use remotely sensed data

The k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) technique is a popular method for producing spatially contiguous predictions of forest attributes by combining field and remotely sensed data. In the framework of Working Group 2 of COST Action FP1001, we reviewed the scientific literature for forestry applications of k-NN. Information available in scientific publications on this topic...

Author(s):

Gherardo Chirici; Matteo Mura; Daniel McInerney; Nicolas Py; Erkki O. Tomppo; Lars T. Waser; Davide Travaglini; Ronald E. McRoberts

Year:

2016

Keywords:

k-Nearest Neighbors, Forestry applications, Review, Meta-analysis

Source:

Remote Sensing of Environment

Effects of silviculture practices on engineering properties of northern hardwood species of the Great Lakes Region: a literature review

This report summarizes technical and scientific literature on the relationship between silvicultural practices and engineering properties of wood from northern hardwood species grown in the Great Lakes Region. Knowledge of engineering properties is critical to the utilization of hardwoods in engineered wood products, including but not limited to wood composites and...

Author(s):

Yvette Dickinson; Xiping Wang; Jan Wiedenbeck; Robert J. Ross

Year:

2019

Keywords:

Silviculture, Wood, mechanical properties, engineering properties, hardwoods

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-269. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 17 p.

Using remotely sensed data to construct and assess forest attribute maps and related spatial products

Tremendous advances in the construction and assessment of forest attribute maps and related spatial products have been realized in recent years, partly as a result of the use of remotely sensed data as an information source. This review focuses on the current state of techniques for the construction and assessment of remote sensing-based maps and addresses five topic...

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts; Warren B. Cohen; Erik Naesset; Stephen V. Stehman; Erkki O. Tomppo

Year:

2010

Keywords:

accuracy assessment, change detection, inference, lidar, prediction

Source:

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 25: 340-367.

Algorithmic decision rules for estimating growth, removals, and mortality within a national-scale forest inventory (USA)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program maintains the National Information Management System (NIMS) that provides the computational framework for the annual forest inventory of the United States. Questions regarding the impact of key elements of programming logic, processing criteria, and estimation procedures...

Author(s):

William H. McWilliams; Carol L. Alerich; William A. Bechtold; Mark Hansen; Christopher M. Oswalt; Mike Thompson; Jeff Turner

Year:

2012

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Source:

In: McWilliams, Will; Roesch, Francis A. eds. 2012. Monitoring Across Borders: 2010 Joint Meeting of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium and the Southern Mensurationists. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-157. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 155-159.

Wood and Wood-Based Materials as Sensors—A Review of the Piezoelectric Effect in Wood

A variety of techniques have been investigated for use in assessing the physical and mechanical properties of wood products and structures. Ultrasound, transverse vibration, and stress-wave based methods are all techniques that have shown promise for many nondestructive evaluation applications. These techniques and others rely on the use of measurement systems to...

Author(s):

Robert J. Ross; Jiangming Kan; Xiping Wang; Julie Blankenburg; Janet I. Stockhausen; Roy F. Pellerin

Year:

2012

Keywords:

Crystallinity, defects, piezoelectric effect, piezoelectric modulus, wood

Source:

USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, General Technical Report, FPL-GTR-212, 2012: 12 p.

A constructive review of the State Forest Inventory in the Russian Federation

The State Forest Inventory (SFI) in the Russian Federation is a relatively new project that is little known in the English-language scientific literature. Following the stipulations of the Forest Act of 2006, the first SFI sample plots in this vast territory were established in 2007. The 34 Russian forest regions were the basic geographical units for all statistical...

Author(s):

Alexander Alekseev; Erkki Tomppo; Ronald E. McRoberts; Klaus von Gadow

Year:

2019

Keywords:

Forest inventory, Sampling design, Stratification, Remote sensing, Bias, Accuracy

Source:

Forest Ecosystems

Low Frequency Vibration approach to asess the Performance of wood structural Systems

The primary means of inspecting buildings and other structures is to evaluate each structure member individually. This is a time consuming process that is expensive, particularly if sheathing or other covering materials must be removed to access the structural members. This paper presents an effort to use a low frequency vibration method for assessing the structural...

Author(s):

Xiping Wang; Robert J. Ross; Michael O. Hunt

Year:

2004

Keywords:

Low frequency, vibration, performance, wood structural systems

Source:

Review of Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Volume 23, pp 1000-1007. 2004.

Use of models in large-area forest surveys: Comparing model-assisted, model-based and hybrid estimation

This paper focuses on the use of models for increasing the precision of estimators in large-area forest surveys. It is motivated by the increasing availability of remotely sensed data, which facilitates the development of models predicting the variables of interest in forest surveys. We present, review and compare three different estimation frameworks where...

Author(s):

Goran Stahl; Svetlana Saarela; Sebastian Schnell; Soren Holm; Johannes Breidenbach; Sean P. Healey; Paul L. Patterson; Steen Magnussen; Erik Naesset; Ronald E. McRoberts; Timothy G. Gregoire

Year:

2016

Keywords:

design-based inference, model-assisted estimation, model-based inference, hybrid inference, national forest inventory, remote sensing, sampling

Source:

Forest Ecosystems. 3: 5.

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition impacts on the structure and function of forest mycorrhizal communities: A review

Humans have dramatically increased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition globally. At the coarsest resolution, N deposition is correlated with shifts from ectomycorrhizal (EcM) to arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) tree dominance. At finer resolution, ectomycorrhizal fungal (EcMF) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) communities respond strongly to long-term N deposition...

Author(s):

Erik A. Lilleskov; Thomas W. Kuyper; Martin I Bidartondo; Erik A. Hobbie

Year:

2019

Keywords:

Nitrogen deposition, Mycorrhizal fungi, Community response, Function, Critical loads

Source:

Environmental Pollution

A questionnaire-based review of the operational use of remotely sensed data by national forest inventories

We report on the operational use of remotely sensed data by national forest inventory (NFI) programmes in 45 countries representing approximately 65% of theworld's forest area. The analysis is based on responses to a questionnaire prepared under the auspices of COST Action FP1001 "Improving Data and Information on the Potential Supply of Wood Resources: A...

Author(s):

Frank Barrett; Ronald E. McRoberts; Erkki Tomppo; Emil Cienciala; Lars T. Waser

Year:

2016

Keywords:

COST action FP1001, Case studies, Satellite imagery, Spaceborne data, Aerial photography

Source:

Remote Sensing of Environment

Chaparral in southern and central coastal California in the mid-1990s: area, ownership, condition, and change.

This report summarizes an inventory of chaparral-dominated lands in southern California conducted during the mid-1990s and provides a review of contemporary literature on the ecological dynamics of chaparral vegetation with emphases on stand development, species composition, and the role of fire. Detailed tables provide estimates of chaparral area by owner, type, size...

Author(s):

Jeremy S. Fried; Charles L. Bolsinger; Debby Beardsley

Year:

2004

Keywords:

Source:

Res. Bull. PNW-RB-240. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 86 p

Post-fire assessment of structural wood members

Since the interior of a charred wood member normally retains its structural integrity, large structural wood members often do not need to be replaced after a fire. Engineering judgement is required to determine which members can remain and which members need to be replaced or repaired. Due to the lack of established methods to directly determine the residual capacity...

Author(s):

Robert J. Ross; Brian K. Brashaw; Xiping Wang; Robert H. White; Roy F. Pellerin

Year:

2005

Keywords:

Post-fire assessment, building inspection, wood, deterioration, nondestructive testing, fire testing, pyrolysis, structural timbers, fire resistance, fire damage, charring, thermal degradation

Source:

Wood and timber condition assessment manual. Madison, WI : Forest Products Society, 2005: pages 29-46.

White pine blister rust in Korea, Japan and other Asian regions: comparisons and implications for North America

This article briefly reviews the history of white pine blister rust, attributed to Cronartium ribicola, and addresses current research and management issues in South Korea, Japan and other regions of eastern Asia (China, Russia and Himalaya). For each region, the distribution, damage, aecial hosts, telial hosts and management of C. ribicola and other blister rust fungi...

Author(s):

M.-S. Kim; N. B. Klopfenstein; Y. Ota; S. K. Lee; K.-S. Woo; S. Kaneko

Year:

2010

Keywords:

white pine blister rust, Cronartium ribicola

Source:

Forest Pathology. 40: 382-401.

Methods, Chapter 4

We present an up-to-date review of current knowledge relating nitrogen (N) inputs to ecological effects, from published literature, reports, and some recent unpublished studies. Our goal is to summarize research on ecosystems across the United States. We include N gradient, long-term, and fertilizer studies; for fertilizer studies, we focus on those with low N...

Author(s):

L.H. Pardo; E.A. Lilleskov; L.H. Geiser; M.J. Robin-Abbott

Year:

2011

Keywords:

Source:

In: Pardo, L.H.; Robin-Abbott, M.J.; Driscoll, C.T., eds. Assessment of Nitrogen deposition effects and empirical critical loads of Nitrogen for ecoregions of the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-80. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 25-35.

Population-wide mortality in multiple forest types in western North America: onset, extent, and severity of impacts as indicators of climatic influence

A complex of drought, insects, and disease is causing widespread mortality in multiple forest types across western North America. These forest types range from dry Pinus-Juniperus woodlands to moist, montane Picea-Abies forests. Although large-scale mortality events are known from the past and considered part of natural cycles, recent events have largely been...

Author(s):

J. D. Shaw; J. N. Long; M. T. Thompson; R. J. DeRose

Year:

2010

Keywords:

mortality, forest types, climate change, Forest Inventory and Analysis

Source:

The International Forestry Review. 12(5): 45.

Adaptation of trees, forests and forestry to climate change

Ongoing climate change will likely expose trees and forests to new stresses and disturbances during this century. Trees naturally adapt to changes in climate, but their natural adaptive ability may be compromised by the rapid changes projected for this century. In the broad sense, adaptation to climate change also includes the purposeful adaptation of human systems,...

Author(s):

Daniel J. Chmura; Glenn T. Howe; Paul D. Anderson; Bradley J. St Clair

Year:

2010

Keywords:

adaptation strategy, management, resistance, resilience, sustainable forestry

Source:

SYLWAN. 154(9): 587-602

Remote sensing support for national forest inventories

National forest inventory programs are tasked to produce timely and accurate estimates for a wide range of forest resource variables for a variety of users and applications. Time, cost, and precision constraints cause these programs to seek technological innovations that contribute to measurement and estimation efficiencies and that facilitate the production and...

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts; Erkki O. Tomppo

Year:

2007

Keywords:

Active sensor, k-nearest neighbors, Stratification, Large area estimation, Mapping

Source:

Remote Sensing of Environment. 110(4): 412-419.

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Ultrasonic-Based Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Wood: A Primer and Historical Review

Measuring wood quality in standing trees--a review

Advances and emerging issues in national forest inventories

A meta-analysis and review of the literature on the k-Nearest Neighbors technique for forestry applications that use remotely sensed data

Effects of silviculture practices on engineering properties of northern hardwood species of the Great Lakes Region: a literature review

Using remotely sensed data to construct and assess forest attribute maps and related spatial products

Algorithmic decision rules for estimating growth, removals, and mortality within a national-scale forest inventory (USA)

Wood and Wood-Based Materials as Sensors—A Review of the Piezoelectric Effect in Wood

A constructive review of the State Forest Inventory in the Russian Federation

Low Frequency Vibration approach to asess the Performance of wood structural Systems

Use of models in large-area forest surveys: Comparing model-assisted, model-based and hybrid estimation

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition impacts on the structure and function of forest mycorrhizal communities: A review

A questionnaire-based review of the operational use of remotely sensed data by national forest inventories

Chaparral in southern and central coastal California in the mid-1990s: area, ownership, condition, and change.

Post-fire assessment of structural wood members

White pine blister rust in Korea, Japan and other Asian regions: comparisons and implications for North America

Methods, Chapter 4

Population-wide mortality in multiple forest types in western North America: onset, extent, and severity of impacts as indicators of climatic influence

Adaptation of trees, forests and forestry to climate change

Remote sensing support for national forest inventories

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