Discrimination of Xihulongjing tea grade using an electronic tongue

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 6985-6992

  Xiao, Hong ^a,b   Wang, Jun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHAOGUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electronic tongue; Grade; Pattern recognition; Tea

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK; CANONICAL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOOD ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEA; XIHULONGJING TEA;

EID: 74549214470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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