The invention discloses an SAR and optical image fusion method for landslide detection. The method provided by the invention comprises the following steps: step 1, preprocessing an SAR and an opticalimage; step 2, performing HIS conversion on the optical image to obtain three components I, H and S; step 3, performing stationary wavelet transform and high-frequency component energy maximization fusion on I components of the SAR image and the optical image; step 4, performing saliency detection on the low-frequency and high-frequency components of the SAR image and the gray scale information ofthe image, establishing an SAR salient target detection area guidance function, and partitioning the SAR image; step 5, establishing a salient region fusion rule, and realizing image fusion accordingto a regional fusion strategy; and step 6, identifying and extracting landslide disaster information based on the fused image. The method has good adaptability to SAR and optical image fusion for landslide detection, adopts related processing measures in structure maintenance, noise removal and spectrum reservation, and obtains an excellent effect.