Precision agriculture (PA) utilizes tools and technologies to identify in-field soil and crop
variability for improving farming practices and optimizing agronomic inputs. Traditionally …

Bruising is the most common type of mechanical damage affecting fresh horticultural
produce, and reduces quality to the consumer and income to fruit and vegetable industries …

Digital image processing technology has been widely applied in various fields, and it is also
increasingly used in pavement distress detection in recent years. The objective of this review …

Food quality and safety issues are increasingly attracting attention. Emerging imaging
techniques have particular advantages in non-destructive detection of food quality and …

Thermal imaging (TI) is an emerging, non-invasive process analytical technique suitable for
the food industry. While TI was originally developed for military applications, it has recently …

In recent years, deep learning-based detection methods have been applied to pavement
crack detection. In practical applications, surface cracks are divided into inner and edge …

The present study was carried out with the aim of analysing the variability of the emissivity
values of nine of the most characteristic horticultural crops of the greenhouse productive …

This paper presents a study of the thermal temporal variation in citrus canopy as a potential
approach for improving fruit detection for harvesting orange. Tree canopy was monitored on …

To investigate if latent manganese (Mn) deficiency leads to increased transpiration, barley
plants were grown for 10 weeks in hydroponics with daily additions of Mn in the low nM …

Plant temperature can provide important physiological information for crop management.
Non-contact measurement with an infrared thermometer is useful for detecting leaf …