Sheep skin property estimation using a low-cost planar sensor

Interdigital sensors have been successfully employed in various fields; in this paper we attempted to determine the looseness in sheep skins using interdigital sensors. Looseness is one of the quality attributes that determines the value of the leather. A low cost interdigital based sensing system with an effective data acquisition system has been designed.

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