Development of a multispectral imaging prototype for real-time detection of apple fruit firmness

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Renfu ^a   Peng, Yankun ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apples; Firmness; Fruit; Multispectral imaging; Near infrared; Quality; Scattering

Indexed keywords

APPLES; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING; MULTISPECTRAL SCATTERING; REAL-TIME DETECTION;

FRUITS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 37549021826     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2818812     Document Type: Article

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