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A Field experiment was carried out during the 2015-2016 growing season at Sersour experimental farm, located in the semi-arid region of Setif (Algeria). The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of using the numerical image analysis approach to estimate biomass and senescence by mean of appropriate software, the Mesurim Pro (Version 3.3). The results showed a significant difference between leaf reflectance at Red, Green and Blue light; results also registered a positive and significant correlation between leaf reflectance at red and blue, and senescence (r=0.78, r=0.50, respectively). This relationship between senescence and leaf reflectance indicate that the increase in leaf reflectance during senescence stage is due to degradation of leaf chlorophyll content. Over all, the numerical image analysis was very suitable approach to estimate reflectance of vegetal cover and the variation of some physiological traits.