The invention discloses a millimeter wave sparse array remote monitoring imaging method and system, and belongs to the technical field of millimeter wave three-dimensional holographic imaging. The method comprises the following steps: S1, obtaining an echo signal; S2, performing interpolation operation; S3, performing fast Fourier transform; S4, selecting a distance plane; S5, performing frequencydomain matched filtering; S6, performing fast Fourier inverse transform; S7, performing time domain matched filtering; S8, performing coherent accumulation; and S9, obtaining a three-dimensional complex image. According to the millimeter wave sparse array remote monitoring imaging method and system disclosed by the invention, a millimeter wave sparse array full-electronic scanning imaging systemis adopted, and compared with a traditional optical machine scanning far-field imaging system, the millimeter wave sparse array full-electronic scanning imaging system has the characteristics of smallelectromagnetic wave flicker effect, high image signal-to-noise ratio and large imaging field range; meanwhile, compared with a traditional time domain type imaging method, the adopted signal processing imaging method has the advantages of less hardware resources and less storage space, the algorithm process is simple and easy to understand, the algorithm main body only comprises the main body process of fast Fourier transform, matched filtering and coherent accumulation, and the calculation efficiency is higher than that of the traditional time domain type algorithm.