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New imaging technology paves the way for simplified, low-cost agricultural quality assessment

Morian Toukir Ahmed, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, photographs sweet potatoes with a hyperspectral camera. Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences Hyperspectral imaging is a technique that helps analyze the chemical composition of foods and agricultural products. However, this is an expensive and complicated procedure, which limits its…