With the development of remote sensing technology, the data type and data volume of remote sensing data has increased dramatically in the past decades which is a challenge for traditional storage mode. A combination of quadtree and Hilbert spatial index was proposed in this paper to solve the the low storage efficiency in HBase data storage. Firstly, the research status of traditional terrain data storage and data storage based on HBase was reviewed. Secondly the design idea on the combination of quadtree and Hilbert spatial index based on managing global data was proposed. Thirdly the algorithm for calculating the row and column number based on the longitude and latitude of terrain data, and the algorithm for calculating the final Hilbert code was designed. Finally, the physical storage infrastructure for the index was designed. The experimental results illustrate that the data loading speed in Hadoop cluster improved 63.79%-78.45% compared to the single computer, the query time decreases by 16.13%-39.68% compared to the traditional row key index, the query speed is at least 14.71 MB/s which can meet the requirements of terrain data visualization.