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 …

Evolving technology, shifting expectations: cultivating pedagogy for a rapidly changing GIS landscape

B Ricker, J Thatcher - Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
As humans and natural processes continuously reshape the surface of the Earth, there is an
unceasing need to document and analyze them through the use of Geographic Information …

pRPL+ pGTIOL: The marriage of a parallel processing library and a parallel I/O library for big raster data

J Miao, Q Guan, S Hu - Environmental modelling & software, 2017 - Elsevier
Data I/O has become a major bottleneck of computational performance of geospatial
analysis and modeling. In this study, a parallel GeoTIFF I/O library (pGTIOL) was developed …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a Reference Architecture with Modular Design for Large-scale Genotyping and Phenotyping Data Analysis: A Case Study with Image Data

AK Mondal - 2017 - harvest.usask.ca
With the rapid advancement of computing technologies, various scientific research
communities have been extensively using cloud-based software tools or applications. Cloud …