Non-destructive evaluation of tomato based on optical scattering
Toru Katsumata1, Hiroaki Aizawa1, Shuji Komuro1
1Faculty of Science and Engineering, Toyo University, 2100 Kujirai, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-8585, Japan.
Abstract:
Equipment for the non-destructive evaluations of a tomato has been developed based on the scattering spectra, the angular distributions of the scattering intensities, and the scattering images from the specimens. The sugar concentrations of tomato can be estimated optically based on the scattering intensities using a halogen lamp, a white light-emitting diode (white LED), a yellow LED, a red LED, and near infrared LEDs (λ = 850 nm and 940 nm) as the incident lights. The scattering intensity is found to vary linearly with sugar concentrations of tomato with any wavelengths at which the scattering light can be observed. The gradient of calibration lines of the sugar concentrations against the scattering intensities varies with scattering angles, θ. Evaluations at around θ = 160° are found to be suitable because of the large gradient and good linearity with the correlation coefficient, R, close to 1.
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