Application of Spectroscopy as a Sustainable Tool for Agri-Food Product Inspection and Characterization
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2021) | Viewed by 6525
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biosystems engineering; optical analyses; agro-food sector; chemometrics; pre-postharvest
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: optical analyses; agro-food sector; chemometrics; pre-postharvest
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The spectroscopic analysis in the region of visible near-infrared (vis/NIR) and near-infrared (NIR) represents a powerful analytical tool. NIRs have become very useful for evaluating the quality of fruit and vegetables and, in general, for the characterization of agri-food products. Coupled with suitable statistical analysis (chemometrics), NIRs are excellent tools for rapid quantitative analysis and, in most case studies, require no sample preparation, resulting in sustainable and low-impact analytical technologies. NIR devices have been recently developed with attention to their simplification, by integrating user-friendly software for statistical processing and partial automation of analysis, for less skilled users.
However, the adoption of NIR technologies by the agri-food sector can be noticed and can be attributed to the costs and technical limitations. Therefore, research is moving towards simplified, easy-to-use, low-cost systems for real-time in-situ measurements.
Besides, automation has a crucial role in completely inter-connected industry, which is defined as Industry 4.0. The development of optical instrumentation with very inexpensive sensors that can be placed directly in contact with the sample for continuous monitoring without an operator (thanks to cloud data storage) could be an interesting opportunity.
Therefore, this Special Issue will collect studies focused on agri-food new application, with particular attention to automation and integration in field and/or real scale plant. The submitted papers can cover different topics: product inspection and characterization, on-line applications, field applications, new prototypes, automation and networking of devices, and proximal sensing.
Dr. Roberto Beghi
Dr. Valentina Giovenzana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Vis/NIR spectroscopy
- NIR spectroscopy
- agri-food
- simplified device
- wavelengths
- prototypes
- characterization
- control
- field
- automation