In recent years,in order to improve the classification accuracy of ground objects,break through the technical system of single sensor,and make up for the limitations of single data source application,multi-source remote sensing data fusion has become a research hotspot concerned by many scholars in the field of remote sensing.The fusion technology of optical image and LiDAR point cloud data of hyperspectral remote sensing technology provides a feasible scheme to improve the accuracy of ground object recognition and classification at the technical level,breaks the technical upper limit of single sensor,and provides a new solution for the integrat-ed acquisition of target three-dimensional space-spectral information.At the same time,it lays a foundation for the research of hyperspectral LiDAR imaging technology.This paper reviews the development history of Li-DAR and hyperspectral imaging data fusion,discusses the main fusion methods and research progress at the fea-ture level and decision level,introduces the commonly used feature level fusion and decision level fusion meth-ods in detail,summarizes the latest research algorithms and discusses their challenges and future development and application prospects.Finally,the future development of LiDAR and hyperspectral imaging data fusion is prospected systematically.