The invention provides a method for constructing a tree trunk volume estimation model, a volume estimation method and a system, wherein, method for constructing a tree trunk volume estimation model comprises the steps of three-dimensionally scanning individual trees, and sampling point cloud data of a tree trunk; conducting point cloud data preprocessing, including deleting redundant point cloud data outside the tree trunk; in the vertical direction, dividing the trunk point cloud data into n layers horizontally, and calculating the volume of each layer slice by the method of cross-sectional area integral, then the volume of n layers is superposed to obtain the volume of the whole tree trunk. The trunk volume model of trunk volume and trunk model factor was constructed by using the trunk model factor and the calculated volume result and linear regression analysis to fit the trunk model. Compared with the prior art, the invention reduces the destruction to the forest, improves the accuracy of modeling, and can realize the accurate modeling of irregular objects, the modeling workload is small, the time consuming is short, and the timeliness of modeling can be satisfied.