In order to solve the problems of missed detection and false detection in the current remote sensing image small target detection task, a SMCA + CSC + shape-aware intersection over union loss (SIoU)-you only look once (SCS-YOLO) remote sensing image small target detection algorithm was proposed. Firstly, in response to the problem of small and clustered targets in remote sensing images, a spatial multi-scale convolutional attention module(SMCA) was constructed to improve the model's feature extraction ability of spatial and channel information. Secondly, in order to solve the problem that the semantic information of small targets was easy to be lost during deep network transmission, the aggregation subpixel convolution module concentrated sub-pixel convolution (CSC) was designed, and the multi-scale aggregation feature extraction method was used to enhance the ability of the network to extract semantic information. Finally, the SIoU loss function was used to replace the complete intersection over union loss(CIoU) loss function in the original model, which accelerated the convergence speed of the network. The average of the average precision(mAP) of the SCS-YOLO model reaches 97% and 90.9% on the RSOD and NWPU VHR-10 datasets, respectively, which is 2.2% and 2.7% higher than that of the original model, which shows the effectiveness of the method in the small target detection task of remote sensing images.