“…So far, NIR technology has been successfully applied to detect the internal quality of fruits with thin peel, such as pears, peaches, apples, kiwifruits and persimmons, and so on (Altieri, Genovese, Tauriello, & Direnzo, 2017;Bobelyn et al, 2010;Clark et al, 2004;Fan, Zhang, Li, Huang, & Wang, 2016;Nascimento et al, 2016;Nicolaï, Verlinden, Desmet, & Torricelli, 2008). However, compared with this type of fruit, it may be more difficult to assess the internal quality of fruits with thick peel such as melons and watermelons by NIR spectroscopy (Ito et al, 2002), because effective collection of the spectral information is more difficult for fruits with thick peel.…”