Determination of watermelon volume using ellipsoid approximation and image processing

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 366-371

  Koc, Ali Bulent ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ellipsoid approximation; Image processing; Volume; Watermelon

Indexed keywords

CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS;

EID: 34447644228     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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