How to quantify conduits in wood?

A Scholz, M Klepsch, Z Karimi, S Jansen - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Vessels and tracheids represent the most important xylem cells with respect to long distance
water transport in plants. Wood anatomical studies frequently provide several quantitative …

Computer vision-based wood identification and its expansion and contribution potentials in wood science: A review

SW Hwang, J Sugiyama - Plant Methods, 2021 - Springer
The remarkable developments in computer vision and machine learning have changed the
methodologies of many scientific disciplines. They have also created a new research field in …

Inside Wood–A web resource for hardwood anatomy

EA Wheeler - Iawa Journal, 2011 - brill.com
Inside Wood is an Internet-accessible wood anatomy reference, research, and teaching tool.
The InsideWood database has coded wood anatomical descriptions based on the IAWA List …

Forensic timber identification: It's time to integrate disciplines to combat illegal logging

EE Dormontt, M Boner, B Braun, G Breulmann… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
The prosecution of illegal logging crimes is hampered by a lack of available forensic timber
identification tools, both for screening of suspect material and definitive identification of …

Classification of CITES-listed and other neotropical Meliaceae wood images using convolutional neural networks

P Ravindran, A Costa, R Soares, AC Wiedenhoeft - Plant methods, 2018 - Springer
Background The current state-of-the-art for field wood identification to combat illegal logging
relies on experienced practitioners using hand lenses, specialized identification keys …

The XyloTron: flexible, open-source, image-based macroscopic field identification of wood products

P Ravindran, BJ Thompson, RK Soares… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Forests, estimated to contain two thirds of the world's biodiversity, face existential threats due
to illegal logging and land conversion. Efforts to combat illegal logging and to support …

[HTML][HTML] Computer-assisted timber identification based on features extracted from microscopic wood sections

F Lens, C Liang, Y Guo, X Tang, M Jahanbanifard… - Iawa Journal, 2020 - brill.com
Wood anatomy is one of the most important methods for timber identification. However,
training wood anatomy experts is time-consuming, while at the same time the number of …

DNA Barcoding of the Endangered Aquilaria (Thymelaeaceae) and Its Application in Species Authentication of Agarwood Products Traded in the Market

SY Lee, WL Ng, MN Mahat, M Nazre, R Mohamed - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The identification of Aquilaria species from their resinous non-wood product, the agarwood,
is challenging as conventional techniques alone are unable to ascertain the species origin …

Opportunities for improved transparency in the timber trade through scientific verification

AJ Lowe, EE Dormontt, MJ Bowie, B Degen… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In May 2014, the Member States of the United Nations adopted Resolution 23/1 on
“strengthening a targeted crime prevention and criminal justice response to combat illicit …

Review of macroscopic features for hardwood and softwood identification and a proposal for a new character list

F Ruffinatto, A Crivellaro, AC Wiedenhoeft - IAWA journal, 2015 - brill.com
With the adoption of a number of anti-illegal logging laws, treaties, memoranda, and
international agreements around the world, there is broad and renewed interest in wood …