Hyperspectral imaging technology in food and agriculture Image and spectral analysis techniques: Introduction Renfu Lu and Bosoon Park. Basics of image analysis Fernando Mendoza and Renfu Lu. Basics of spectroscopic analysis Stephen R. Delwiche. Hyperspectral image processing methods Seung Chul Yoon and Bosoon Park. Classification and prediction methods James E. Burger and Aoife A. Gowen Applications: Safety inspection of plant products Haibo Yao [and 4 others]. Foodborne pathogen detection Seung Chul Yoon. Measurement of food optical properties Renfu Lu and Haiyan Cen. Quality evaluation of plant products Jasper G. Tallada [and 4 others]. Quaity evaluation of beef and pork Govindarajan Konda Naganathan [and 4 others]. Plant health detection and monitoring Won Sul Lee. Hyperspectral imagery for mapping crop yield for precision agriculture Chenghai Yang. Real time hyperspectral imaging for food safety Bosoon Park and Seung Chul Yoon. LCTF hyperspectral imaging for vegetable quality evaluation Changying Li and Weilin Wang. AOTF hyperspectral imaging for foodborne pathogen detection Bosoon Park Hyperspectral imaging as an emerging technology acquires and analyzes a large amount of spectral and spatial information from a real scene in the form of three dimensional images. The technology offers unprecedented capabilities compared to conventional imaging and spectroscopy for a wide range of applications from satellite remote sensing to biomedical imaging and to product quality and safety inspection. Image processing and analysis is thus at the core of the technology. With rapid developments both in hardware and software in recent years and increased demands for better quality and safer food products we have witnessed expanding R&D activities and applications of hyperspectral imaging technology in objective rapid non destructive and automated safety inspection and quality control for a variety of food and agricultural products and production. Hyperspectral Imaging Technology in Food and Agriculture is focused on major recent advances in research and applications of hyperspectral imaging technology in food and agriculture. The book begins with the fundamentals of the technology followed by a comprehensive coverage of food quality and safety evaluation in meats fruits vegetables grains and other foods as well as remote sensing for crop production. This book is written by international peers who have academic and professional credentials with each chapter addressing a particular topic or specific application of the technology. The book provides the engineer and technologist working in the food and agricultural industry with critical comprehensive and readily accessible information on hyperspectral imaging technology. It also serves as an essential reference source to undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in universities and research institutions Back cover