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NIR news
Volume 19 Issue 8, Pages 8–11 (2008)
doi: 10.1255/nirn.1103

Near infrared spectroscopy on agricultural harvesters: the background to commercial development

Christian Paul,^a Juan Manuel Montes^b and Phil Williams^c
aFederal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
^bInstitute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr 21, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
^cPDK Projects, 5072 Vista View Crescent, Nanaimo, BC V9V 1L6, Canada

In the final years of the 20th century, a handful of NIR researchers in North America and Europe came to the conclusion that product analysis during the harvesting process on agricultural harvesters by means of NIR spectrometers was a technical feasibility. The commercial relevance of this concept prompted them to take various approaches in keeping with their sphere of work, professional experience and interests. Their approach has become part of a concept called “On-site NIR” (On- site near infrared spectroscopy) and this article summarises the factors that have driven developments in this application.

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