Big Data and cloud computing: innovation opportunities and challenges

C Yang, Q Huang, Z Li, K Liu, F Hu - International Journal of Digital …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Big Data in Earth system science and progress towards a digital twin

X Li, M Feng, Y Ran, Y Su, F Liu, C Huang… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of a digital twin of Earth envisages the convergence of Big Earth Data with
physics-based models in an interactive computational framework that enables monitoring …

Situating ecology as a big-data science: current advances, challenges, and solutions

SS Farley, A Dawson, SJ Goring, JW Williams - BioScience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data:
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling the potential effect of shared bicycles on public transport travel times in Greater Helsinki: An open data approach

S Jäppinen, T Toivonen, M Salonen - Applied geography, 2013 - Elsevier
In many European cities, support for public transport and cycling in daily mobility is
considered an efficient means to reduce air pollution, traffic jams, and carbon emissions …

Spatial cloud computing: how can the geospatial sciences use and help shape cloud computing?

C Yang, M Goodchild, Q Huang, D Nebert… - … Journal of Digital …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The geospatial sciences face grand information technology (IT) challenges in the twenty-first
century: data intensity, computing intensity, concurrent access intensity and spatiotemporal …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating spatial planning and flood risk management: A new conceptual framework for the spatially integrated policy infrastructure

J Ran, Z Nedovic-Budic - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Flooding is a widely occurring natural hazard that noticeably damages property, people, and
the environment. In the context of climate change, the integration of spatial planning with …

Tools for modeling of stormwater management and economics of green infrastructure practices: A review

VM Jayasooriya, AWM Ng - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2014 - Springer
Green Infrastructure (GI) practices have been identified as a sustainable method of
managing stormwater over the years. Due to the increasing popularity of GI as an integrated …

Managing soils for recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic

R Lal, EC Brevik, L Dawson, D Field, B Glaser… - Soil Systems, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global food supply chain and exacerbated the
problem of food and nutritional insecurity. Here we outline soil strategies to strengthen local …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual geographic environments (VGEs): A new generation of geographic analysis tool

H Lin, M Chen, G Lu, Q Zhu, J Gong, X You, Y Wen… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Virtual Geographic Environments (VGEs) are proposed as a new generation of
geographic analysis tool to contribute to human understanding of the geographic world and …

Application of artificial intelligence in phenomics

S Nabwire, HK Suh, MS Kim, I Baek, BK Cho - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant phenomics has been rapidly advancing over the past few years. This advancement is
attributed to the increased innovation and availability of new technologies which can enable …