Spatial Big Data Science - Zhe Jiang Shashi Shekhar Gebunden

Emerging Spatial Big Data (SBD) has transformative potential in solving many grand societal challenges such as water resource management food security disaster response and transportation. However significant computational challenges exist in analyzing SBD due to the unique spatial characteristics including spatial autocorrelation anisotropy heterogeneity multiple scales and resolutions which is illustrated in this book. This book also discusses current techniques for spatial big data science with a particular focus on classification techniques for earth observation imagery big data. S pecifically the authors introduce several recent spatial classification techniques such as spatial decision trees and spatial ensemble learning. Several potential future research directions are also discussed.This book targets an interdisciplinary audience including computer scientists practitioners and researchers working in the field of data mining big data as well as domain scientists working in earth science (e.g. hydrology disaster) public safety and public health. Advanced level students in computer science will also find this book useful as a reference.