Abstract: At present,the construction of National Spatial Data Infrastructure(NSDI) and Digital Earth imminently needs efficient management of multi-scale and multi-resource mass image data.This paper gives systematic and deep researches on distributed heterogeneous management mode of super-image-project and image-project based on commercial database management system(such as ORACLE,SQL Server) and Component Object Modal(COM) after the characteristics of image data and its management requirement is comprehensively analyzed.The design and implementation method for large-scale seamless image database management system is also described.