The importance and use of reflectance spectra of objects in remote sensing applications have increased manifold with the advent of Hyper-spectral sensors. These are more efficient in discriminating soil, minerals and vegetation types. A spectral library of the desired resources is a pre-requisite for above studies. Exhaustive libraries are available only for minerals and soils. In vegetation, it is primarily restricted to agriculture crops. Therefore, in a new activity, IHBT(CSIR) and Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad have come together for developing a spectral library of plants of the western Himalayan region. Presently, spectral responses from 39 plants have been recorded using HandHeld Field Spec Spectroradiometer