RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) provides vision and clarity into manufacturing, sorting, warehousing and shipping of products. Wood product manufacturers struggle with tracking components and ...

Wood species identification using image analysis techniques represents a burgeoning field that integrates advanced imaging technologies with machine learning algorithms to address critical challenges ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—An international wood society is recognizing Mississippi State researchers with a prestigious award for groundbreaking work harnessing artificial intelligence to identify wood ...

Detailed information about the expansive contents of ESF's wood collection – 40,000 samples that represent 100 years of gathering wood from around the globe – will soon be made available to scientists ...

Extracting DNA from processed timber products is challenging due to the small amount of degraded DNA remaining in the wood. For many identification technologies, it’s paramount that robust reference ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University’s College of Forestry is the new home of a forensics lab that fights the illegal timber trade, a $1 billion annual problem for the U.S. forest products ...

Kristen Finch, a lab technician at the US Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory, is using the Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-TOFMS) machine to determine the full ...

Some years ago, David Gehl made an unusual trip to Siberia. “I went to lots of sawmills and forests and came back from Russia and China with, like, 20 kg of wood boards on my back,” he recalls. Gehl ...

Colubrina arborescens, or wild coffee, is an evergreen in Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys, Hawaii and the West Indies. Stanley Yankowski Cornus controversa, or giant dogwood, is native to China, the ...

SWAT: The E&M Division-II of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) organised a seminar titled “Wood Identification, Quality Assessment and Export Procedures” at the Government College of ...

WOOD RIVER — A man intentionally tampered with the natural gas system in his home, causing an explosion that killed him, destroyed the house and damaged surrounding houses and businesses. The Nebraska ...