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To address this problem, this paper undertakes intensive research of the NoSQL (Not Only SQL) data management model, especially the MongoDB database, and proposes a new approach to managing large-scale remote sensing data. Firstly, based on the sharding technology of MongoDB, a distributed cluster architecture was designed and established for massive remote sensing data. Secondly, for the convenience in the unified management of remote sensing data, an archiving model was constructed, and remote sensing data, including structured metadata and unstructured image data, were stored in the above cluster separately, with the metadata stored in the form of a document, and image data stored with the GridFS mechanism. Finally, by designing different shard strategies and comparing MongoDB cluster with a typical relational database, several groups of experiments were conducted to verify the storage performance and access performance of the cluster. 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