Source: SAMPSON INDEPENDENT, 9/25/17

After grabbing a sweet potato, Amber Tsirnikas used a laser scanner to evaluate its shape and size characteristics. “Basically what my scanner does is get a 360-degree view of each potato and create an object file on the computer,” said Tsirnikas, a graduate research assistant. Next, she takes measurements from the file such as diameter, volume and curvature. With assistance from her professor, Micheal Boyette, she introduced the digital image system to many people for North Carolina Sweet Potato Field Day at the Horticultural Crops Research Station in Clinton.

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