Improving apple fruit firmness predictions by effective correction of multispectral scattering images

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 266-274

  Peng, Yankun ^a   Lu, Renfu ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apples; Firmness; Fruit; Lorentzian function; Multispectral imaging; Scattering

Indexed keywords

LORENTZIA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 33751079611     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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