Predicting apple fruit firmness by multispectral scattering profiles

ASAE Annual International Meeting 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 7013-7022

  Peng, Yankun ^a   Lu, Renfu ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Apple; Firmness; Fruit; Lorentzian distribution function; Multispectral Imaging; Near Infrared; Scattering

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCATTERING;

FIRMNESS; LORENTZIAN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING; NEAR-INFRARED;

FRUITS;

APPLES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCATTERING;

EID: 30044444975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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