Identified poor quality and knotty timber in standing trees, enabling cost-effective timber transportation.

Optimized timber quality reaching processing mills using advanced non-destructive techniques.

Evaluated Eucalyptus nitens as a high-quality sawlog source in temperate plantations.

Accurately differentiated pruned (higher quality) and unpruned (lower quality) plantation eucalyptus for economic viability.

Unveiled the impact of knots and branch traces on log quality, reducing value of low-quality stems.

Explored innovative approaches to visually discriminate between pruned and unpruned trees.

Applied ultrasonic and thermal testing to detect internal defects in 17-year-old E. nitens trees.

Conducted comprehensive scanning of billets using through-transmission and pulse-echo ultrasonic techniques.

Attained valuable insights from ultrasonic wave propagation analysis, revealing disparities between unpruned and pruned billets.

Leveraged thermal imaging to assess moisture content's effect on ultrasonic wave propagation in unpruned billets.

Validated non-destructive techniques for in-field assessment of internal structures in E. nitens plantations.