A sensor for the sugar cane harvester topper
Stuart McCarthy
(Stuart McCarthy is at the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.)
John Billingsley
(John Billingsley is at the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.)
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Abstract
A robust low cost refractometer has been developed together with signal conditioning algorithms to enable sucrose content to be measured during the mechanical harvesting of the sugar cane plant. This technology will be applied to the harvester process that removes the tops of the cane to assist the harvester operator to cut the cane at the optimum cutting height.
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Citation
McCarthy, S. and Billingsley, J. (2002), "A sensor for the sugar cane harvester topper", Sensor Review, Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 242-246. https://doi.org/10.1108/02602280210433089
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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