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Optical Phased Arrays on Photonic Integrated Circuit Platforms: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Applications

open access: yesNanophotonics, Volume 15, Issue 14, 27 July 2026.
Integrated optical phased arrays are emerging as scalable engines for solid‐state beam steering and programmable wavefront control. This Review maps the field from beam‐steering principles and core building blocks to material platforms, system‐level bottlenecks, and application frontiers, highlighting how heterogeneous integration, aperiodic ...
Jingwei Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studies on Tanzanian forest work.

open access: yesSilva Fennica, 1987
Four teams of two workers were time-studied in clearcutting of a cypress plantation and three teams in sulky skidding. The heart rate was recorded every 30 s. The average heartrate in timber cutting was 117.5 ± 13.4 P/min, and it was mainly dependent on
Saarilahti, M.   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proposal of using GIS for multi-criteria evaluation of environmentally friendly use of skidding technologies in forestry

open access: yesJournal of Forest Science, 2014
The aim of the study was to propose and verify a model which, based on multi-criteria evaluation of selected input data, determines the category in terms of the environmentally friendly use of individual skidding technologies for each stand.
M. Synek, M. Klimánek
doaj   +1 more source

Productivity and Time Consumption of Timber Extraction with a Grapple Skidder in Selected Pine Stands

open access: yesCroatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2017
This paper presents the results of the study on work time and productivity of the John Deere 548G-III grapple skidder operating in pine stands on flat terrain.
Arkadiusz Stańczykiewicz   +2 more
doaj  

Evaluation of full tree skidding by HSM-904 skidder in patch cutting of aspen plantation in Northern Iran

open access: yesJournal of Forest Science, 2012
This paper presents research results of the performance of HSM-904 grapple skidder using a full tree harvesting method in a non-native aspen Populus deltoides plantation in even terrain conditions in Shafaroud, Northern Iran.
R. Mousavi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal Forest Road Density Based on Skidding and Road Construction Costs in Iranian Caspian Forests

open access: yesCaspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2009
Information on the productivity, costs and applications of the logging system is a key component in the evaluation of management plans for the rehabilitation and utilization of Caspian forests.
Mohammadi Limaei, S., Naghdi, R.
doaj  

Integrating Animal and Mechanical Operations in Protected Areas

open access: yesCroatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2011
The authors tested two alternative treatments for small wood extraction in protected conservation areas, respectively based on direct skidding by small crawler tractors and integrated horse bunching and crawler tractor skidding.
Raffaele Spinelli, Natascia Magagnotti
doaj  

A Damage Prediction Model for Quantity Loss of Skidded Spruce Logs during Ground Base Skidding in North Eastern Turkey

open access: yesCroatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2009
In Turkey ground base skidding method is frequently used to extract log material. Physical damages occurring on the skidded log during ground based skidding cause quality and quantity loss of the log.
H. Hulusi Acar, Saliha Unver
doaj  

Productivity and Costs of Mechanized Skidding operations at Sao Hill Forest Plantation, Tanzania

open access: yesForest Science and Technology
Due to global advancement of technology in forest operations, utilization of advanced machineries such as grapple skidder (GS) in timber harvesting has been increasing in the last decades. However, in order to understand their contribution in sustainable
Gilberth Prosper Temba   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial Modeling of a New Technological Typification in Forestry Based on Multicriteria Evaluation of Skidding Technologies

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2015
The study describes a new system of technological typification in forestry based on multicriteria evaluation of environmentally friendly use of common skidding technologies.
Michal Synek, Martin Klimánek
doaj   +1 more source

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