Preliminary Thermal Imaging of Cotton Impurities

Tuesday, January 6, 2015: 8:15 AM
Salon D (Marriott Rivercenter Hotel)
Michael Easson , USDA-ARS-SRRC
Joe Montalvo , USDA-ARS-SRRC
Terri Von Hoven , USDA-ARS-SRRC
Brian Condon , USDA-ARS-SRRC
Robert G Hardin, IV , USDA-ARS Cotton Ginning Unit
Richard K Byler , Cotton Ginning Research Unit
Preliminary thermal imaging of raw cotton impurities (leaf, stem, seed coat fragments, etc.) has shown that this new approach to count seed coat fragments is selective over the other contaminants in the cotton.  The initial results are presented.