Using artificial neural network (ann) technique for prediction of apple bruise damage

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1442-1448

  Rostampour, Vahid ^a   Motlagh, Asad Modares ^a   Komarizadeh, Mohmmad Hasan ^a   Sadeghi, Morteza ^b   Bernousi, Iraj ^a   Ghanbari, Tohid ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bruise volume; Prediction model; Transport vibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884683764     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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