It is necessarily to monitor crop diseases and insect pests in integrated pest managerment. This paper elaborates the principium of hyperspectral remote sensing monitoring crop diseases and insect pests. Basing on vegetation index and derivative spectrum, it summarizes the recent domestic and overseas progress of hyperspectral remote sensing monitoring crop diseases and insect pests, and suggests wide application prospects of hyperspectral remote sensing in plant protection. Finally, author proposes the problems that should be solved in the future.
