The invention provides a method and a device for measuring the index number of
canopy vegetation of crops. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring visible images and near-
infrared (NIR)
grayscale images of canopies of target crops, extracting red, green and blue components in the visible images, and performing
grayscale respectively on the red, green and blue components in the visible images to acquire
grayscale images of the red, green and blue components respectively; according to
conversion coefficients acquired in advance, calculating the spectral
reflectivity of each pixel point in the grayscale images of the red, green and blue components and the spectral
reflectivity of each pixel point in the NIR grayscale images; and according to the spectral
reflectivity of each pixel point in the grayscale images of the red, green and blue components and the spectral reflectivity of each pixel point in the near-
infrared grayscale images, calculating the index number of the
canopy vegetation of the target crops. In the method and the device for measuring the index number of the
canopy vegetation of the crops, two charge coupled devices (CCDs) are adopted to acquire the visible images and the NIR images so as to reduce the cost; and the method is simple.