A drone aerial image enhancement algorithm is proposed to address the issue of uneven lighting and degradation of image quality caused by natural fog in drone aerial images. Utilize an improved low illumination image enhancement algorithm to balance brightness contrast; To solve the problem of image over enhancement after equalization, a color correction and enhancement method combining defogging and exposure fusion is proposed; In order to preserve the edge texture information of the enhanced image, a more effective detail enhancement algorithm has been designed. After processing, the statistical histogram is smoother, which can suppress some noise to a certain extent, and the detail texture information is stronger. The experimental results show that the proposed aerial image enhancement algorithm can effectively solve the phenomenon of image degradation caused by uneven lighting or natural fog, improve the quality of unmanned aerial vehicle aerial images, and the subjective and objective image quality evaluation indicators are superior to the majority of existing mainstream algorithms, with better performance.