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Arboriculture & Urban Forestry Online
Volume 33, Issue 2 — March 2007
https://www.isa-arbor.com/Publications/Arboriculture-Urban-Forestry

Predicting Wood Decay in Eucalypts Using an Expert System and the IML-Resistograph Drill    (View PDF)

Denise M. Johnstone, Peter K. Ades, Gregory M. Moore, and Ian W. Smith

Abstract: The evaluation of decayed wood in a tree trunk is essential for hazard tree assessment in arboriculture. In this study, an IML-Resistograph was highly successful as a field instrument in its ability to locate and predict the presence of decay in the trunk wood of eucalypts. A system for using the IML-Resistograph to estimate the area of decay in the cross-section of a eucalypt was evaluated for field use. The data from the IML-Resistograph F300S can be used as part of an expert system to estimate the area of wood decay in a cross-section of a standing eucalypt.

Keywords: Eucalypts; hazard trees; Resistograph; tree failure; tree risk analysis; wood decay.

https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2007.009


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