The invention provides a system and method for monitoring a low-slow-small unmanned aerial vehicle. The system comprises a detection device used for collecting target information and vacant unmanned aerial vehicle fixedly arranged in the air, wherein the detection device and the vacant unmanned aerial vehicle are sequentially distributed in a set range, and a photoelectric device and a command control platform arranged on the ground are arranged on the vacant unmanned aerial vehicle; a probe device comprises a laser range finder, a radar and a photoelectric device; the detection device and thevacant unmanned aerial vehicle transmit data to the command control platform through a wireless network. According to the system, the radar, the laser range finder, the photoelectric device and the vacant unmanned aerial vehicle are combined, the vacant unmanned aerial vehicle can be automatically found and identified, and the system is compatible with various monitoring means; the data is sent to the command control platform through the wireless network for data analysis, processing and storage, the defects that a single discovery mode is low in finding rate and missed alarm situations are likely to occur are overcome, the finding rate is increased, the missed alarm situations are reduced, and the working efficiency is improved.