Forest is a main component of the terrestrial ecosystem, and its monitoring is the vital support for sustainable utilization of forest and global change researches. The home and aboard progress of remote sensing techniques application on monitoring forest ecosystems was concluded in this paper from four respects: classification and changes detection, the retrieval of vital ecological parameters of forest ecosystems including tree height, leaf area index, canopy density, etc., the estimation of stand volume and biomass, and disturbance monitoring. After summarized remote sensing data and models used in forest ecosystems monitoring, research prospect of establishment of integrated forest ecosystems monitoring platform with multi-dimension, multi-scale and high time density were put forward, which synthesized filed data, land-to-air high-resolution radar scanning techniques, multi-source optical remote sensing modeling and process models.