Abstract: Flood and drought disaster monitoring is one of the earliest applications of remote sensing in water resources field. Since the 1980s, Remote Sensing Technology Application Center of the Ministry of Water Resources has begun to carry out remote sensing experiment of flood control, and researched on drought monitoring by remote sensing in the 1990s. After nearly 40 years of unremitting exploration, some problems have gradually been solved such as software, data, model and method. Subsequently application system has been established for flood and drought disaster monitoring by remote sensing, and remote sensing monitoring system has been preliminarily put into operation in flood and drought disaster. This paper reviews the technical research of flood and drought disaster monitoring in the Remote Sensing Technology Application Center, and prospects the comprehensive operation of flood and drought disaster monitoring by remote sensing.

Keywords：flood and drought disaster；remote sensing monitoring；research progress

(Journal of China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Vol. 16, No. 5, 2018)