Optimum harvest date determination for apples using spectral analysis

Gartenbauwissenschaft

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 199-204

  Zude, Manuela ^a   Herold, B ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

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MALUS X DOMESTICA;

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