a Canadian Forest Service (Pacific Forestry Centre), Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5 b Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA c Integrated Remote Sensing Studio, Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main...

It is crucial to leave behind the traditional linear economy approach. Shifting paradigm and adopting a circular (bio)economy seems be strategy decouple economic growth from continuous resource extraction. To this end, producing bio-based products that aim replace part, if not all, of fossil-based chemicals fuels promising step. This can achieved by using multi-product integrated biorefineries ...

Orange juice represents one of the main orange fruit consumption worldwide, and during this process, about 50% fresh weight remains as by-products. These by-products comprise mainly peels pulps, known pomace, rich in bioactive compounds (BCs) such essential oils, phenolic (mainly hesperidin), pectin. BCs provide various health benefits, like antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-...

The approach used to track the flow of carbon sequestered in the forest through harvest, processing into products, and final disposition of products is described. The methodology is broadly flexible and applicable to forest-based carbon balance assessments. A carbon balance is computed across all forestland ownerships for the production facility of interest. The balance considers forest uptake,...

Sustainable biofuel production is the most effective way to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil fuels while preserving food security and land use. In addition producing bioenergy, waste biorefineries can be incorporated into management system solve future challenges of disposal. Biomass waste, on other hand, regarded as a low-quality biorefinery feedstock wide range composi...

Robust hand tracking is highly demanded for many realworld applications relevant to human machine interface, however, current methods achieves no satisfactory robustness in real environments. In this paper a novel hand tracking method was proposed integrating online Hough Forest and Flocks-of-Features tracking. Skin color was integrated in the Hough Forest framework, gaining more robustness aga...

The linkage between global climate change and forests have assumed political prominence as forest sinks are now acknowledged as a means for off-setting carbon dioxide (CO,) emissions under the Kyoto Protocol targets. As such, policies to stimulate forest carbon sequestration in an open economy will require varying levels of economic information to allow for decisions that are both eficient and ...

The article analyses the possibilities of developing an integrated indicator and a model of the assessment of forests naturalness using the data from the database of mountainous spruce forests situated in the Western Carpathians of Slovakia. The article presents two variants of such a model, one based on discriminant analysis, while the second one using an additive approach. The analysis of the...