The invention discloses an image matching method suitable for automatically detecting the flight quality of the aerial photography. The method comprises the steps that firstly, images are preprocessed, denoising and filtering are respectively carried out on two digital images to be matched, and the two digital images to be matched are obtained with the aerial photography measuring method in the measured area and are two-dimensional images; secondly, SIFT characteristic extracting is carried out, the SIFT characteristic extraction is respectively carried out on the two digital images through a data processor, all characteristic points of the two digital images and SIFT characteristic descriptors of all the characteristic points are obtained; thirdly, a kd tree is established to carry out the bi-directional search to determine matching points; fourthly, gross error removing is carried out according to the RANSAC algorithm. According to the method, the steps are simple, design is reasonable, the achieving process is convenient, robustness and the using effect are good, and the method can effectively solve the problem that according to an existing method, matching is prone to failure matching or error matching.