Issue 1 Special Issue:Necessary technologies and requirements to turn forestry into a growth sector
| Article type | Title | Authors | page |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOREWORD | Thinking about smart forestry | Yozo Yamada | １ |
| FOREWORD OF SPECIAL ISSUE | Introduction of the special issue on “Necessary technologies and requirements to turn forestry into a growth sector” | Kotaro Zushi | 3-5 |
| ARTICLE FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | Strip road detection with semantic segmentation based on deep convolutional neural networks | Kengo Usui and Masahiro Mozuna | 7-13 |
| ARTICLE FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | Productivity assessment of harvesting mechanization for sustainable forest utilization in mountainous areas | Takashi Sato, Takaaki Hurubayashi, Kazuyoshi Nemoto and Toshihiko Nakata | 15-24 |
| ARTICLE FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | A labour-saving, nursing seedling system for male-sterile Japanese cedar using agricultural machinery | Maki Saito | 25-30 |
| ARTICLE FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | Investigation of the placement of access roads in cutting areas and its effect on forestry machine travel distances and productivity in the National forests in Hokkaido | Yuta Inomata, Takeshi Yamada, Hiroko Muneoka, Shozo Sasaki and Naoyuki Furuya | 31-38 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL REPORT FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | The spread and problems of Forest Certification in Tama Lumber (Tamasanzai) | Yoshiko Hashimoto, Yuko Kimura, Mayuko Kobayashi and Kiyoshi Mitani | 39-44 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL REPORT FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | Work recognition using physical stress level and motion analysis in forestry labor | Hajime Kajitani and Tsuyoshi Kajisa | 45-52 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL NOTE FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | Revitalizing Forest and Forestry, and the strategy for mechanization | Koki Okawa | 53-60 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL NOTE FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | High value-added production from unutilized tree species "Nezumisashi" (Juniperus rigida) in rural forest with local wood biomass utilization as a background | Atsushi Yamaba | 61-66 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL NOTE FOR SPECIAL ISSUE | Efforts for practical application of forest resource survey using UAV in Ishikawa Prefecture | Yutaka Yada | 67-69 |
Issue 2
| Article type | Title | Authors | page |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTICLE | Cost burden and cost composition of logging contractors investing in high-performance forestry machinery | Tatsuya Owake and Noriko Sato | 77-86 |
| ARTICLE | An actual analysis of spur road maintenance in the Shirasu area, Southern Kyushu, Japan | Yoshihito Iuchi, Masaru Oka, Yukiyoshi Teramoto and Eturo Simokawa | 87-96 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL REPORT | Functional evaluation of slope protection using microalgae | Soma Nitta, Kazuhiro Yabe, Yuki Imatomi, Fumio Eguchi and Kanya Tokunaga | 97-101 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL REPORT | Performance evaluation of a manually locking carriage system for the light cable yarding | Kohei Yoshizumi, Kazuhiro Yabe, Takaya Chihara and Yuki Imatomi | 103-108 |
| NOTE | Report on the fourth seminar of “Availability estimation and harvesting system of unused woody materials” | Kazuhiro Aruga, Masashi Konoshima, Hidesato Kanomata, Keisuke Toyama and Kai Moriguchi | 109-112 |
| NOTE | Report on attending the symposium | Dai Otsuka | 113-115 |
| NOTE | Report on the exhibition and demonstration of forest, forestry and environmental machinery 2019 | Tetsuhiko Yoshimura | 116-119 |
| NOTE | Report on seminars for young persons in 2018th FOREST UTILIZATIONS & FOREST PLANNINGS | Masaru Watanabe | 120-123 |
| NOTE | Report on the FORMEC Congress 2019 | Masaru Watanabe | 124-127 |
| BOOK REVIEW | Takuyuki Yoshioka | 128-129 |
Issue 3
| Article type | Title | Authors | page |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTICLE | Analysis of construction method of operational forest road by motion measurement of excavator | Hirokazu Yamaguchi, Hidenori Suzuki, Yuta Inomata, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Hiroko Muneoka, Yoshihiro Kariya and Naoki Shimizu | 137-146 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL REPORT | Interpretation of forestry work road networks by using small fixed-wing UAV | Seishiro Taki, Masahiko Nakazawa and Haruto Akamatsu | 147-151 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL REPORT | Examination in productivity of producing wood chip on forest residues and mill-waste with small chipper | Tadashi Hatabu and Kyohei Yamakami | 153-158 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL NOTE | Case report on static survey at open space and PPK analysis by low-cost dual-frequency GNSS receivers | Hiroyuki Kobayashi | 159-165 |
| NOTE | Report on the IUFRO World Congress 2019 | Keisuke Toyama, Kazuhiro Aruga and Yasushi Suzuki | 167-171 |
| BOOK REVIEW | Yasushi Suzuki | 172-173 | |
| BOOK REVIEW | Yozo Yamada | 174-175 |
Issue 4
| Article type | Title | Authors | page |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTICLE | Productivities and resources of a logging broadleaved forest with forestry vehicles on a flat land in the snow season. | Masahiko Nakazawa, Tatsuya Sasaki, Chikashi Yoshida, Takumi Uemura, Hidenori Suzuki, Seishiro Taki, Shinjiro Oya, Haruto Akamatsu and Daisuke Ito | 189-196 |
| ARTICLE | Performance and weeding costs of a new silviculture machine for cutting larch stumps. | Ichiro Watanabe | 197-202 |
| ARTICLE | Construction of three-dimensional point cloud data of work roads using video data. | Seishiro Taki, Masahiko Nakazawa, Masashi Saitou, Katsumasa Oono, Hidenori Suzuki, Chikashi Yoshida, Takaya Chihara and Koutaro Zushi | 203-208 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL NOTE | Improvement of the scattering protective cover for bush cutters. | Genki Ito, Kazuhiro Yabe and Yuki Imatomi | 209-214 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL NOTE | Adoptability of text mining for analysis of forestry labor accidents. | Yuta Inomata, Hirokazu Yamaguchi and Kengo Usui | 215-222 |
| RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL NOTE | Estimation of transportation distance and time between forests and a woody biomass power plant using a Web map service. | Chisa Nakata and Akemi Itaya | 223-230 |
| NOTE | Report on the IUFRO Division3 Virtual Business Meeting. | Yasushi Suzuki | 231-233 |
| BOOK REVIEW | Yoshiaki Matsuzaw | 234 |