In this paper, The recent national and international developments on the study of remote sensing application to saline lakes is recently are reviewed and summarized, including saline lake spectral feature, characteristic bands sensitive to saline lake water and salt components, estimation model of the salt content and depth of the high-concentration saline lake, interpretation of geological evolution, surface and inner-crystalline brine change monitoring, changes of saline lake ecological environment, etc. Along with the remote sensing developing from low-resolution to high-resolution, Multi-Spectrum to hyper-spectrum and visible-light to microwave, on the basis of saline lake information identification and composition quantitative estimation, more emplasis shoald be paid to the inversion of salinity materialization parameters for hyperspectral remote sensing and inner-crystalline change monitoring with Radar data. We should also do our best to deeply investigate the relationship between the ecological system and the effect factors such as climate and salinity from remote sensing aspect. The saline lake research can also be extended to the salt lake biology, salt lake disaster or other feasible area.