This document stipulates the principle, equipment and test system, materials, sample preparation, measurement steps, result expression, precision, test report, etc. of automatic determination of vitrinite random reflectance of coal by image analysis method. This document is applicable to the automatic determination of vitrinite random reflectance of single layer coal or mixed coal of bituminous coal and anthracite. The random reflectance measurement of lignite humus can be used as a reference.