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This situation often forces single-level features to span a broad spectrum of object sizes, complicating accurate localization and classification. To tackle these challenges, this paper proposes an innovative algorithm that incorporates an adaptive multi-scale feature enhancement and fusion module (ASEM), which enhances remote sensing image object detection through sophisticated multi-scale feature fusion. Our method begins by employing a feature pyramid to gather coarse multi-scale features. Subsequently, it integrates a fine-grained feature extraction module at each level, utilizing atrous convolutions with varied dilation rates to refine multi-scale features, which markedly improves the information capture from widely varied object scales. Furthermore, an adaptive enhancement module is applied to the features of each level by employing an attention mechanism for feature fusion. This strategy concentrates on the features of critical scale, which significantly enhance the effectiveness of capturing essential feature information. Compared with the baseline method, namely, Rotated FasterRCNN, our method achieved an mAP of 74.21% ( 0.81%) on the DOTA-v1.0 dataset and an mAP of 84.90% (+9.2%) on the HRSC2016 dataset. 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