With the deepening of geological investigation,various types of cores obtained from drilling in various geological fields are increasing every year,and the storage and follow-up observation of cores has gradually become a difficult problem.Relying on the construction of geological database,an electronic album of core images will established and digitized into a core image library.The core image database system realizes the functions of permanent preservation and effective management of core map and docu-ment,and can partially replace the physical core bank in core observation,description,query,comparison of porous core,graphic dis-play,output and so on.