camera and items need for grain color sorting

[waterspill]

I am just starting out and am looking to build a very simple color sorter for grain.  I wish to do more later such as texture and size sorting.  I need advice before proceeding with some purchases.  For a camera I am looking at the gigE Vision camera spec, but what type should I be looking at ( line scan or area) also will gigE Vision be fast enough or do I need to be looking at 10GigE Vision.  Also for trigering the camera in this operation what would be an appropriate trigger.  The grain will be running down a chute in in a near continous stream.  Any thoughts or locations to get a better feel for this would be great thanks

[iZACHdx]

Hello,

It sounds like this would require a little more in-depth information in order to determine what might be best for your application needs. I would suggest that you contact National Instruments directly so that all the necessary information can be obtained and discussed.

-Zach

[muks]

What is the speed requirement? In other words how much time is given to process an image? What are the details that you need to inspect?

[waterspill]

I would like to analyze somewhere between 70,000 and 120,000 kernels per second.  I want to anlalyze the kernels for color and shape.  however I could do the shape and color sort in separate runs.  I realize I will need multiple channels to realize this speed but using a single lane (two cameras one from the back and one from the front) I would like to achieve 20000 - 30000 kernels per second.  Please advise as to your thoughts

Thanks

[BruceAmmons]

This looks like a good application for the new FPGA / cameralink combination that was demoed at NI Week.  That is about the only way I can imagine you could analyze each kernel at this speed.

Bruce