Nondestructive quantification of chemical and physical properties of fruits by time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy in the wavelength range 650–1000 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 538-543

  Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a   D’andrea, Cosimo ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Taroni, Paola ^a   Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Valentini, Gianluca ^a   Dover, Colin ^b   Johnson, David ^b   Ruiz Altisent, Margarita ^c   Valero, Constantino ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b HORTICULTURE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHLOROPHYLL; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

NONDESTRUCTIVE QUANTIFICATION;

FRUITS;

EID: 0000950637     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000538     Document Type: Article

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