Chapter 16
Wooden Material and Environmental
Sciences
Te Ma, Satoru Tsuchikawa, and Tetsuya Inagaki
Abstract Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is suitable for both the qualification
and quantification of organic properties associated with C–H, O–H, or N–H groups.
There have been considerable efforts made toward proposing and developing various
technologies and devices for the rapid and nondestructive measurement of various
samples related to natural materials and environmental sciences. In this chapter,
the utilizations of NIRS in the fields of wood material, soil, sediment, waste liquid,
atmospheric gas detection, and archeological science will be explained through some
representative studies.
Keywords Wood material · Soil · Sediment · Waste liquid · Archeological science
16.1 Introduction
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is useful for the nondestructive measurement of
various samples related to natural materials and environmental sciences. A typical
example is wood material. The advantages of wood as a building material still
outweigh other products (e.g., steel and brick) when looking at the environmental
impact. It is naturally renewable and helps to mitigate climate change through carbon
storage. However, there still is a limited extent in industry practice. The main reason
is that wood has some drawbacks as a typical natural material such as deformation and cracking, caused by its heterogeneous structures and hygroscopic nature.
Quality assessment of such characteristics just can get customers truly approbate and
support and promote the development of the whole wood industry finally. Recently,
there have been considerable efforts made toward proposing and developing various
technologies, and NIRS makes great contributions to this field. NIRS also has been
developed significantly at soil composition analysis since the 1990s, taking advantage
of previous advances in agricultural instrumentation and chemometrics. Currently,
T. Ma · S. Tsuchikawa · T. Inagaki (B)
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-Cho, Chikusa, Nagoya
464-8601, Japan
e-mail: inatetsu@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
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Wooden Material and Environmental
Sciences
Te Ma, Satoru Tsuchikawa, and Tetsuya Inagaki
Abstract Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is suitable for both the qualification
and quantification of organic properties associated with C–H, O–H, or N–H groups.
There have been considerable efforts made toward proposing and developing various
technologies and devices for the rapid and nondestructive measurement of various
samples related to natural materials and environmental sciences. In this chapter,
the utilizations of NIRS in the fields of wood material, soil, sediment, waste liquid,
atmospheric gas detection, and archeological science will be explained through some
representative studies.
Keywords Wood material · Soil · Sediment · Waste liquid · Archeological science
16.1 Introduction
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is useful for the nondestructive measurement of
various samples related to natural materials and environmental sciences. A typical
example is wood material. The advantages of wood as a building material still
outweigh other products (e.g., steel and brick) when looking at the environmental
impact. It is naturally renewable and helps to mitigate climate change through carbon
storage. However, there still is a limited extent in industry practice. The main reason
is that wood has some drawbacks as a typical natural material such as deformation and cracking, caused by its heterogeneous structures and hygroscopic nature.
Quality assessment of such characteristics just can get customers truly approbate and
support and promote the development of the whole wood industry finally. Recently,
there have been considerable efforts made toward proposing and developing various
technologies, and NIRS makes great contributions to this field. NIRS also has been
developed significantly at soil composition analysis since the 1990s, taking advantage
of previous advances in agricultural instrumentation and chemometrics. Currently,
T. Ma · S. Tsuchikawa · T. Inagaki (B)
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-Cho, Chikusa, Nagoya
464-8601, Japan
e-mail: inatetsu@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Y. Ozaki et al. (eds.), Near-Infrared Spectroscopy,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8648-4_16
361