CONTENTS
Preface vii
Editor ix
Contributors xi
Chapter 1 Distributed and Parallel Computing 1
Monir H. Sharker and Hassan A. Karimi
Chapter 2 GEOSS Clearinghouse: Integrating Geospatial Resources
tc Support the Global Earth Observation System of Systems 31
Chaowei Yang, Kai Liu, Zhenlong Li, Wenwen Li, Huayi Wu, Jizhe Xia, Qunying Huang, Jing Li, Min Sun, Lizhi Miao, Nanyin Zhou, and Doug Nebert
Chapter 3 Using a Cloud Computing Environment to Process Large 3D
Spatial Datasets 55
Ramanathan Sugumaran, Jeffrey Burnett, and Marc P. Armstrong
Chapter 4 Building Open Environments to Meet Big Data Challenges
in Earth Sciences 69
Meixia Deng and Liping Di
Chapter 5 Developing Online Visualization and Analysis Services
for NASA Satellite-Derived Global Precipitation Products
during the Big Geospatial Data Era 91
Zhong Liu, Dana Ostrenga, William Teng, and Steven Kempler
Chapter 6 Algorithmic Design Considerations for Geospatial
and/or Temporal Big Data 117
Terence van Zyl
Chapter 7 Machine Learning on Geospatial Big Data 133
Terence van Zyl
Chapter 8 Spatial Big Data: Case Studies on Volume, Velocity, and Variety.... 149 Michael R. Evans, Dev Oliver, Xun Zhou, and Shashi Shekhar
Chapter 9 Exploiting Big VGI to Improve Routing and Navigation Services.... 177
Mohamed Bakillah, Johannes Lauer, Steve H.L. Liang, Alexander Zipf, JamalJokar Arsanjani, Amin Mobasheri, and Lukas Loos
Chapter 10 Efficient Frequent Sequence Mining on Taxi Trip Records
Using Road Network Shortcuts 193
Jianting Zhang
Chapter 11 Geoinformatics and Social Media: New Big Data Challenge 207
Arie Croitoru, Andrew Crooks, Jacek Radzikowski, Anthony Stefanidis, Ranga R. Vatsavai, and Nicole Wayant
Chapter 12 Insights and Knowledge Discovery from Big Geospatial Data
Using TMC-Pattern 233
Roland Assam and Thomas Seidl

Chapter 13 Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Addressing the Big Data
Challenges on the Worldwide Sensor Web 261
Steve H.L. Liang and Chih-Yuan Huang
Chapter 14 OGC Standards and Geospatial Big Data 279
Carl Reed
Index 291