Sampling sites

Nirwood_01/ July 6, 2017

Recovering samples from differentes sites Sampling to test commercial devices with the aim of: To refine the methodology To evaluate the technological needs of NIRWOOD prototype To determinate the algorithm for predictive model Sampling in Xylotheques A xylotheque is a wood collection where you can find a large number of samples of different species from different origins. Sampling in big industrial sawmills We have chosen those sawmills working with a larger amount of commercial wood species and all of them with well-controled geographical origins. Sampling in small family-owned sawmills Small sawmills work with a short number of species and timber coming from very close areas (no more than 50km around), allowing us to ensure the origin of the wood. Sampling already sawn template and tropical timber One of our targets consists in the determination of spectral differences between the most variate wood species. Already sawn timber help us to collect samples from temperate and tropical species both in tangential and transverse sections Sampling on field Sampling fresh wood just extracted from the forest brings us the opportunity to

VIIth Spanish Forestry Congress: NIRWOOD Contribution

Nirwood_01/ July 6, 2017

VIIth Spanish Forestry Congress: NIRWOOD Contribution Plasencia (Spain) has been the core of the Spanish forest science since 26th to 30th June 2017 thanks to the VIIth Spanish Forestry Congress. This congress channelized the results of multiple research projects, exchanging and proposing new ideas between participants and making the attendants to participate in enriching debates. Every four years, the Spanish Society of Forest Sciences organizes this Congress. This time its motto has been: “Management of the forest: environmental services and bio-economics”, highlighting the role of good management of forest ecosystems as a guarantee for economical development based on its sustainable use. A research paper has been presented at this conference within the framework of the Nirwood Project. It shows the results of an experiment carried out in 2016 using NIR technology on two pine species (Pinus pinaster and P. radiata). The objective of the work was to determine the ability of the NIR method to discriminate the geographical origin of very close samples and to differentiate between species simply through its NIR spectral features. We also wanted to

First steps for Nirwood Project

Nirwood_01/ July 6, 2017

Project Nirwood; first steps Nirwood project started on first May 2017. We already signed our agreements with the European Commission and we are currently carrying on with our first technological targets following our ambitious working plan for the Project. To carry on a test sampling in Spanish xylotheques, sawmills and forestry exploitations to refine our methodology. We used three commercial and portable NIR devices (with different wavelenght ranges and precission each). Test included both the field work and the chemometrical analysis of thousands of spectra taken during the last 2 months. Thanks to the results of this phase of the project we will know the spectral ranges of interest to determine the wood properties, with the objective of integrate it into our own NIR spectrometer (NIRwood). To define the specific targets of our international sampling. We will choose the most representative species and localities for our data base, on the basis of their commercial interest and threat level. At the same time we are starting to design our spectral data base and the app architecture and interface