The invention discloses a method for rapidly and accurately determining the shape and area of a forest gap, which comprises the following steps: (1) determining coordinates of a forest zone to be determined; (2) controlling, by a ground processing system, according to the coordinates, an unmanned plane remote sensing system to fly to a position 200 m above the ground of the forest zone to be determined, allowing the unmanned plane remote sensing system to hover; (3) performing aerial photographing of the forest zone to be determined by the unmanned plane remote sensing system, wherein the unmanned plane remote sensing system comprises a control module (210) for receiving instructions from the ground processing system, and controlling a power module, a global positioning system module, and a shooting module based on the received data, and a shooting module for receiving instructions from the control module and performing aerial photographing based on the received instructions; (4) processing the aerial photographs, that is, processing the aerial photographs by an ERDAS software; (5) calculating the shape and area of the forest gap. The method has the advantages of rapidness, accuracy, sensitive reaction, simple structure, labor saving and time saving, and the like, and is suitable for popularization and application.