Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural
processes and their impacts, ie, geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic …

Contribution: Recently, real-time data warehousing (DWH) and big data streaming have
become ubiquitous due to the fact that a number of business organizations are gearing up to …

Cost-effective on-demand computing resources can help to process the increasing number
of large, diverse datasets generated from smart internet-enabled technology, such as …

This open access book offers a summary of the development of Digital Earth over the past
twenty years. By reviewing the initial vision of Digital Earth, the evolution of that vision, the …

The availability of timely, accessible and well documented data plays a central role in the
process of digital transformation in our societies and businesses. Considering this, the …

The growth of the Internet of Things (IoTs) and the number of connected devices is driven by
emerging applications and business models. One common aim is to provide systems able to …

A Smart Campus is a miniature of a Smart City with a more demanding framework that
enables learning, social interaction and creativity. To ensure a Smart Campus …

Digital Earth was born with the aim of replicating the real world within the digital world. Many
efforts have been made to observe and sense the Earth, both from space (remote sensing) …

Geospatial information science (GI science) is concerned with the development and
application of geodetic and information science methods for modeling, acquiring, sharing …

Core domains to establish digital twins of the built environment are Building Information
Modeling (BIM), Geographic Information System (GIS) and Internet of Things (IoT). RESTful …