Abstract: By means of literature metrology,the paper analyzes the overall current situation in unmanned aerial vehicle in forestry.Through retrieving the CNKI(China National Knowledge Infrastructure)523 citations were got,the annual distribution,literature sources and keywords of the relevant literature were statistically analyzed.The number of papers since 2015 has been significant in growth;in 2019 the number of literature went up to 154 involving 1120 authors with 464 as first authors.The papers in Top 10 were cited 655 times,the most cited paper reached 169 times,which was published in Journal of Southwest Forestry University.The Number of dissertations of Beijing Forestry University is 27.The Forestry Resources Management has the largest number of articles in Chinese core journals.Keywords analysis showed that UAV,application and forest fire prevention were the emphasis of the research.