The invention provides a segmentation method for crop canopy images based on mean shift. The steps comprise firstly, re-sampling the crop canopy images in RGB color space, then, exchanging the crop canopy images in HSI space, next, indicating each pixel in the crop canopy images as a tetrad combined by four feature values, namely G-R, G-B, H, S, wherein R, G and B respectively indicate red weight, green weight and blue weight of pixel in the RGB space and H and S respectively indicate chroma and saturation of pixel in the HSI color space, then, employing mean shift algorithm to segment the crop canopy images into different types, finally, calculating the feature typical values of each type, if the first and the second components of the typical value are larger than zero, then, it is crops, if not, then, it is not crops. The invention has the advantages that parameters needed to be set is relatively less, the process of features extraction is simple, the algorithm is easy to be realized, and segmentation accuracy rate is high.