The invention belongs to the field of marine environment monitoring, and particularly relates to a method for synchronously measuring the drifting speed of floating objects on the sea surface and the flow speed of ocean currents on the
peripheral surface layer, which comprises the following steps: manufacturing a drifting
buoy, and enabling the drifting
buoy to vertically float on the sea surface and be completely submerged in water through a
steel bar counterweight; releasing the drifting
buoy to a target position through the unmanned aerial vehicle; tracking and shooting drifting buoys and sea surface floating objects, and acquiring and storing image data containing positions of the drifting buoys and the sea surface floating objects; converting the relative positions of the pixels of the image data acquired by the unmanned aerial vehicle into
latitude and
longitude coordinates, and generating a TIFF file; after the unmanned aerial vehicle image of the TIFF file is subjected to geometric correction, the corrected TIFF file is transmitted to QGIS
software, the drifting buoy position and the sea surface floating object position are marked, and the imaging moment is synchronously recorded; and calculating the sea surface floater drift speed and the
peripheral surface ocean current flow velocity based on the position change at the adjacent moments. According to the scheme, the sea surface flow velocity of the near area of the sea surface floating object can be accurately measured, and the depth of the measured surface flow velocity is determined.