THG utilizes the same time-tested technology derived from the LHG’s image analysis and optimization software. The THG’s user interface shown above depicts knots outlined in green, splits and shake with purple, and wane outlined with red.
Proven software defect analysis and classification
USNR’s THG offers the industry the same high value and recovery performance that is proven the world over in the LHG. The THG utilizes the time-tested technology derived from the LHG’s image analysis and optimization software and combines it in a transverse package. If results are what you are looking for, you can be sure that is what you’ll get with a software system that is proven to produce results in demanding mill environments around the world.
technologies the classification of knots is far less reliable. DataFusion offers a level of peace-of-mind that you won’t find in other automated grading systems.
BioLuma 2900LVG+ scanning system
The THG utilizes the industry’s most advanced scanning system. BioLuma 2900LVG+ sensors integrate GrainMap technology, XHD color vision and HD laser profiles. They collect ultra-high resolution images and precise geometric and grain angle measurements along the entire four surfaces of the boards ? the highest resolution and fastest sampling rate of any transverse sensor available today.
Experience
THG is backed by over 20 years of experience with scanning for grade in wood. It utilizes many of the same scanning technologies and software algorithms as USNR’s complete family of automated grading systems – for green lumber in the sawmill, dry lumber in the planer mill, and for chop and rip applications in secondary wood processing operations.
DataFusion™
USNR pioneered the DataFusion concept in the LHG. With DataFusion, all of the data collected from scanning – laser profile data, color vision imagery and GrainMap laser mapping – is correlated and verified from one technology to another to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data. For example, knots require both vision and laser measurement technologies. The vision data gives clues based on the variation in the color of the wood. GrainMap laser mapping measures the deviation of the grain that occurs around a knot. Without the collaboration of data using both of these
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