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Evaluation of chilling injury in bananas using backscattered laser imaging


Citation

Hashim, Norhashila and Janius, Rimfiel and Abdul Rahman, Russly and Osman, Azizah and Shitan, Mahendran and Zude, Manuela (2012) Evaluation of chilling injury in bananas using backscattered laser imaging. In: International Conference on Agricultural and Food Engineering for Life (Cafei2012), 26-28 Nov. 2012, Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya. (pp. 674-681).

Abstract

The change in backscattering parameters during the appearance of chilling injury in bananas was investigated. Bananas were stored at a chilling temperature for two days and the degrees of the chilling injuries that appeared were measured before, during and after storage using backscattering imaging and visual assessment. Laser lights at 660 nm and 785 nm wavelengths were shot consecutively onto the samples in a dark room and a camera was used to capture the backscattered lights. Plots of light intensity of the images against pixel count provided a backscattering profile which contained useful information on backscattering parameters such as inflection point (IP), slope after inflection point (SA), full width half maximum (FWHM) and saturation radius (RSAT). Results indicated that there were significant changes in backscattering parameters as chilling injury developed.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Food Science and Technology
Faculty of Science
Publisher: Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia
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Keywords: Banana; Chilling injury; Backscattering; Fruit quality; Imaging
Depositing User: Samsida Samsudin
Date Deposited: 07 Jul 2014 01:04
Last Modified: 03 Feb 2017 09:19
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31556
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