articleGeography and sustainabilityMar 1, 2020GOLD OA

COVID-19: Challenges to GIS with Big Data

Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

The outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused more than 100,000 people infected and thousands of deaths. Currently, the number of infections and deaths is still increasing rapidly. COVID-19 seriously threatens human health, production, life, social functioning and international relations. In the fight against COVID-19, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and big data technologies have played an important role in many aspects, including the rapid aggregation of multi-source big data, rapid visualization of epidemic information, spatial tracking of confirmed cases, prediction of regional transmission, spatial segmentation of the epidemic risk and prevention level, balancing and…

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