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An efficient method to reduce grain angle influence on NIR spectra for predicting extractives content from heartwood
Yanjie Li1, Xin Dong1, Yang Sun1
1Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou, 311400 Zhejiang People's Republic of China.
Background:
A fast, reliable and non-destructive method is needed to qualify the extractives content (EC) in heartwood of T. sinensis cores in the breeding program for studying the genetic effect on EC. However, the influence of grain angle on near infrared (NIR) spectra prediction model for EC is unclear. In this study, NIR spectra were collected from both cross section and radial section of wood core samples in order to predict the EC in heartwood.
Results:
The effect of grain angle on calibration EC model was studied. Several different spectra pre-processing methods were implemented for calibration. It was found that standard normal variation (SNV) followed by 1st derivative yielded the best calibration result for T. sinensis EC. Grain angle had a significant influence on the predicted model for EC when using the whole NIR spectra. However, after testing a certain point of the prior variables for EC that were selected by the significant multivariate correlation (sMC), the influence of grain angle was significantly eliminated.
Conclusions:
It is suggested that NIR spectroscopy is a promising method to predict EC in the solid wood without effecting grain angle.
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