Remote sensing image enhancement algorithm, which can enhance the contrast of image without changing its information, is crucial for the acquisition and analysis of remote sensing information. In this paper, we compare the performance of several state-of-the-art enhancement algorithms in processing remote sensing images. We classify and refine the main idea of each algorithm, and evaluate the enhancement effect with subjective evaluation and objective metrics such as entropy, brightness, contrast and mean gradient. In order to avoid color-enhanced interference, this paper took experiments both on RGB pictures and grayscale pictures. The significance and compared results were shown in the following paper. © COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.