The manual selection process of fruits is based on visual inspection for fruit color recognition. In-formation on the spectral emission and reflectance, that allows and enhances color recognition, or that makes possible the employment of artificial vision to guide the selection process, is necessary to automate the process of determining the state of maturity. Herein, we present the spectral analysis of light reflected by tomatos (chonto variety) in different states of ripeness, and the corre-lation between spectral characteristics and the degree of maturity.
Keywords: spectral analysis, ripeness state.