Development of a mobile grading machine for citrus fruit

Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-11

  Kohno, Yasushi ^a   Kondo, Naoshi ^b   Iida, Michihisa ^b   Kurita, Mitsutaka ^c   Shiigi, Tomoo ^b   Ogawa, Yuichi ^b   Kaichi, Takafumi ^d   Okamoto, Shingo ^d  

^a Ehime Research Institute of Agriculture   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SI Seiko Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Citrus fruit; Machine vision; Sugar content map; Traceability; Yield map

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONVEYER SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MAP; MOBILE MECHANISM; NIR SPECTROMETER; SUGAR CONTENT; TRACEABILITY; YIELD MAPS;

CITRUS FRUITS;

EID: 79954517894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18818366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1881-8366(11)80002-9     Document Type: Article

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