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Title:		Diverse applications of electronic-nose technologies in agriculture and forestry
Author(s):		Wilson AD;
Address:		"USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, Southern Hardwoods Laboratory, Stoneville, MS 38776, USA. dwilson02@fs.fed.us"
Journal Title:		Sensors (Basel)
Year:		2013
Volume:		20130208
Issue:		2
Page Number:		2295 - 2348
DOI:		10.3390/s130202295
ISSN/ISBN:		1424-8220 (Electronic) 1424-8220 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Electronic-nose (e-nose) instruments, derived from numerous types of aroma-sensor technologies, have been developed for a diversity of applications in the broad fields of agriculture and forestry. Recent advances in e-nose technologies within the plant sciences, including improvements in gas-sensor designs, innovations in data analysis and pattern-recognition algorithms, and progress in material science and systems integration methods, have led to significant benefits to both industries. Electronic noses have been used in a variety of commercial agricultural-related industries, including the agricultural sectors of agronomy, biochemical processing, botany, cell culture, plant cultivar selections, environmental monitoring, horticulture, pesticide detection, plant physiology and pathology. Applications in forestry include uses in chemotaxonomy, log tracking, wood and paper processing, forest management, forest health protection, and waste management. These aroma-detection applications have improved plant-based product attributes, quality, uniformity, and consistency in ways that have increased the efficiency and effectiveness of production and manufacturing processes. This paper provides a comprehensive review and summary of a broad range of electronic-nose technologies and applications, developed specifically for the agriculture and forestry industries over the past thirty years, which have offered solutions that have greatly improved worldwide agricultural and agroforestry production systems"
Keywords:		Agriculture/*instrumentation/*methods *Electronic Nose Food Industry/instrumentation Forestry/*instrumentation/*methods Humans Volatile Organic Compounds/analysis/chemistry;
Notes:		"MedlineWilson, Alphus D eng Review Switzerland 2013/02/12 Sensors (Basel). 2013 Feb 8; 13(2):2295-348. doi: 10.3390/s130202295"