Abstract: Flood and drought disaster monitoring is one of the earliest applications of remote sensing in wa-ter resources field. Since the 1980s, Remote Sensing Technology Application Center of the Ministry of Wa-ter 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 sens-ing monitoring system has been preliminarily put into operation in flood and drought disaster. This paper re-views the technical research of flood and drought disaster monitoring in the Remote Sensing Technology Ap-plication Center, and prospects the comprehensive operation of flood and drought disaster monitoring by re-mote 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)