%0 Journal Article
	%A Wiesław Szulczewski and  Wojciech Jakubowski and  Andrzej Żyromski and  Małgorzata Biniak-Pieróg
	%D 2014
	%J International Journal of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 94, 2014
	%T BasWilCalc – Basket Willow (Salix viminalis) Biomass Yield Calculator
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9999688
	%V 94
	%X The aim of the paper was to elaborate a novel calculator BasWilCalc, that allows to estimate the actual amount of biomass on the basket willow plantations. The proposed method is based on the results of field experiment conducted during years  2011-2013 on basket willow plantation in the south-western part of Poland. As input data the results of destructive measurements of the diameter, length and weight of willow stems and non-destructive biometric measurements of diameter in the middle of stems and their length during the growing season performed at weekly intervals were used. Performed analysis enabled to develop the algorithm which, due to the fact that energy plantations are of known and constant planting structure, allows to estimate the actual amount of willow basket biomass on the plantation with a given probability and accuracy specified by the model, based on the number of stems measured and the age of the plantation.

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