Detection of fungal infection in almond kernels using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-72

  Liang, Pei Shih ^a   Slaughter, David C ^a   Ortega Beltran, Alejandro ^b   Michailides, Themis J ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Almond; Aspergillus flavus; Aspergillus parasiticus; Classification; Detection; Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; INFRARED DEVICES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALMOND; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; CANONICAL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; CROSS VALIDATION ERRORS; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; MULTISPECTRAL SENSING; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ASPERGILLUS;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 84938572658     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.07.010     Document Type: Article

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