Abstract: A surface water quality monitoring method based on a high spatial resolution satellite includes: step 1. building standard surface water quality pools by mixing natural water bodies with clean water in different proportions to obtain surface water quality data; step 2. obtaining high spatial resolution remote sensing images for processing; step 3. identifying remote sensing bands with higher correlation through correlation analysis by presetting ratio values of remote sensor data bands and the standard surface water quality pools; step 4. building a water quality parameter retrieval model, and comparing and retrieving the remote sensing bands with higher correlation and the surface water quality data to obtain water quality data; and step 5. identifying abnormal points of the water quality based on the water quality data and water quality data threshold of the surface water.