Three-dimensional geometric modeling of processing tomatoes

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2287-2296

  Li, X ^a   Pan, Z ^a,b   Upadhyaya, S K ^a   Atungulu, G G ^a   Delwiche, M ^a  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational geometry; Object representations; Processing and modeling; Tomato shape

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT MASS; DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ENGINEERING SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT MESHING; GEOMETRIC ATTRIBUTES; GEOMETRIC MODELING; GEOMETRIC MODELS; OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS; POLAR COORDINATE SYSTEMS; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; SHAPE AND SIZE; SHAPE COEFFICIENTS; SHAPE EQUATION; SHAPE FEATURES; SIZE AND SHAPE; SURFACE AREA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TOMATO SHAPE; UNKNOWN COEFFICIENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRUITS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVATURE; EQUATION; EQUIPMENT; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUIT; GEOMETRY; MODEL VALIDATION; MORPHOLOGY; PRECISION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHAPE; SURFACE AREA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84862911940     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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