POSSIBILITIES OF AUTOMATIC WHEAT VITREOUSNESS DETERMINATION BY DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
Organoleptic methods for the analysis of products lead to a high error and a long duration of such measurements. Therefore, the development of instrumental express methods for determining the quality of products is a relevant task. The paper explores the possibilities of the program evaluating the wheat vitreousness. The studies were made using Yantar and DSZ-2 diaphanoscopes. The stability of the measurement results and the time spent on analysis were compared. We selected samples of soft and durum wheat with vitreousness in the range of 12-97% for the measurement. The program evaluatingwheat vitreousness made it possible to reduce the standart deviation of the vitreousness measurements from 5.5% to 1.3%. The average measurement time has decreased by more than 10 times.