Correlation between oil contents estimation and size of oil palm fruit using digital imagery: article / Ridzuan Mahbub

The objective of this paper is to make a correlation between oil content and the size of the palm oil fruit. There are 30 sample are taken to be tested. We only concentrate at three categories of ripeness that are ripe, overripe, and under ripe. Image from various sample of oil palm fruit were acquired using digital camera with a proper lighting and angle. Then every sample will passed through image processing and analysis. We use PCI Geomatica to analyze the images. We also use the chemical analysis of the palm oil to get the oil content of each sample. This study indicates that the size of the palm oil fruit of ripe have shown a good correlation with the oil palm content as compared to overripe and underripe sample (result).Its hopes that this research will help increase the efficiency of grading quality of harvesting.