Investigation of dielectric sensing for fruit quality determination

2008 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS-2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 54-56

  Nelson, Stuart O ^a   Guo, Wenchuan ^b   Trabelsi, Samir ^a  

^a RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dielectric properties; Fruit quality; Sensing permittivity

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIGITAL STORAGE; FRUITS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; TISSUE;

COMPLEX PLANE PLOT; DIELECTRIC SENSING; EXTERNAL SURFACES; FRUIT QUALITY; IMPEDANCE ANALYZER; OPEN-ENDED COAXIAL-LINE PROBE; QUALITY PREDICTION; SOLUBLE SOLIDS CONTENT;

PERMITTIVITY;

EID: 78649748412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/sas13374.2008.4472943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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