Due to seasonal variations fruit crops are kept in storage for extended periods of time.
before distribution for sale in different countries In such a situation.
measured destructively using penetration tests or parallel plate compression and hydration Such methods are unable to detect fluctuations in fruit quality within a single batch.
Hence, an automatic and non-destructive method for quantitatively determining fruit
quality would be of great economic benefit to the agriculture.
Methods which have been successful in performing ultrasonic measurements on
fruit have been generally limited to using cumbersome lab-based.
The disadvantage of two-transducer ultrasonic methods is that
the transducers must be properly aligned, making such methods
difficult apply automatically or in a non-laboratory environment.
This paper presents a novel, single-transducer method for
determining fruit quality, which can easily be applied automatically
or in the field.