articleInternational Journal of Digital EarthNov 3, 2016BRONZE OA

Big Data and cloud computing: innovation opportunities and challenges

George Mason University · University of Wisconsin–Madison · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with unprecedented value for digital earth applications including business, sciences and engineering. At the same time, Big Data presents challenges for digital earth to store, transport, process, mine and serve the data. Cloud computing provides fundamental support to address the challenges with shared computing resources including computing, storage, networking and analytical software; the application of these resources has fostered impressive Big Data advancements. This paper surveys the two frontiers – Big Data and cloud computing – and…

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Keywords
  • Big data
  • Cloud computing
  • Data science
  • Geospatial analysis
  • Computer science
  • Digital Earth
  • Data mining
  • Geography
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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