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Spatial Data Infrastructures for Big Geospatial Sensing Data

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2022) | Viewed by 37465

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School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: Earth science data and information systems; GIS; data science; semantics; cloud computing
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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Rockville, MD 20852-3149, USA
Interests: software system architecture; distributed computing; semantic web; geospatial analytics; geospatial AI

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Professor of Department of Digital Health Systems, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China
Interests: health GIS; VR/ARGIS; geospatial blockchain; semantic web; social web
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the past decades, information infrastructure, such as spatial data infrastructure (SDI), e-science, and cyberinfrastructure, have been benefiting scientific communities and supporting scientific research. The infrastructure could be used to exploit big data. Many national and international infrastructure projects have been conducted or are on-going, including Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), the European Commission’s INSPIRE, and the U.S. NSF EarthCube. There are also many well-known groups working on geospatial infrastructure research and projects, including the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO), Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), IEEE GRSS Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee (ESI TC), U.S. Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), and major space agencies around the world, including DLR, ESA, JAXA, NASA, NOAA, and USGS. The major international bodies setting standards for SDI, such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO TC 211, have over 400 organizational members and 40 country members, respectively.

Big geospatial data could take infrastructure-based approaches. On the one hand, large amounts of existing Earth science data are collected by remote sensors, taking advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor web technologies. On the other hand, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and citizen sensors are bringing social content to geospatial data. Both could complement each other for enhanced data analysis and scientific discovery. These data, collectively annotated as big geospatial sensing data, can be acquired, visualized, analyzed, and shared through a computational cyberinfrastructure using open, extensible, and interoperable computational software. This Special Issue intends to collect current developments and future directions of using infrastructural methods, tools, and technologies to support big geospatial sensing data. We invite authors to submit their original papers. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Data and information policies for spatial data infrastructure
  • Data stewardship and preservation
  • Provenance and quality
  • Knowledge representation and information models
  • Cyberinfrastructure, interoperability and standardization
  • Data discovery and access
  • Web-based services and analysis for big geospatial sensing data
  • Semantic representation of the spatial and temporal relationships between entities in the geosciences (e.g., spatial and process ontologies, vocabularies, semantic web)
  • Sensor web and applications
  • Cloud computing
  • Geospatial information, knowledge, and decision support systems
  • Tools supporting spatial and temporal analyses of g geospatial sensing data and their applications
  • Emerging information technologies and their applications in big geospatial sensing data

Prof. Dr. Peng Yue
Dr. Ingo Simonis
Prof. Dr. Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
  • Cyberinfrastructure
  • Geospatial Standards
  • Big Geospatial Data
  • Distributed Geospatial Data Management
  • Geospatial Interoperability and Semantics
  • Cloud Computing
  • Big Geospatial Data Sensing
  • Big Sensing Data Analytics
  • Big Geospatial Data Processing

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A Serverless-Based, On-the-Fly Computing Framework for Remote Sensing Image Collection
by Jin Wu, Mingbo Wu, Haiyan Li, Lijuan Li and Leilei Li
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(7), 1728; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14071728 - 3 Apr 2022
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The rapid growth of remote sensing data calls for the construction of new computational models for algorithmic exploration, which requires on-demand execution, instant response, and multitenancy. We call this model on-the-fly computing, which could reduce the complexity of cloud programming for remote sensing [...] Read more.
The rapid growth of remote sensing data calls for the construction of new computational models for algorithmic exploration, which requires on-demand execution, instant response, and multitenancy. We call this model on-the-fly computing, which could reduce the complexity of cloud programming for remote sensing data analysis and benefit from efficient multiplexing. As an advancement of cloud computing, serverless computing makes it possible to realize the on-the-fly computational model. In the study, the concise definition of an on-the-fly computing model for remote sensing data analysis and the corresponding software architecture based on the serverless computing commodities are presented. The proof-of-concept experiments have suggested that the on-the-fly computing model for remote sensing data analysis can be efficiently implemented as a serverless software. The response time is mainly related to the tile reading operation and data structure conversion. In the case of high concurrency, the system can scale to hundreds of instances in seconds. Full article
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An Enhanced Deep Convolutional Model for Spatiotemporal Image Fusion
by Zhenyu Tan, Liping Di, Mingda Zhang, Liying Guo and Meiling Gao
Remote Sens. 2019, 11(24), 2898; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11242898 - 5 Dec 2019
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Earth observation data with high spatiotemporal resolution are critical for dynamic monitoring and prediction in geoscience applications, however, due to some technique and budget limitations, it is not easy to acquire satellite images with both high spatial and high temporal resolutions. Spatiotemporal image [...] Read more.
Earth observation data with high spatiotemporal resolution are critical for dynamic monitoring and prediction in geoscience applications, however, due to some technique and budget limitations, it is not easy to acquire satellite images with both high spatial and high temporal resolutions. Spatiotemporal image fusion techniques provide a feasible and economical solution for generating dense-time data with high spatial resolution, pushing the limits of current satellite observation systems. Among existing various fusion algorithms, deeplearningbased models reveal a promising prospect with higher accuracy and robustness. This paper refined and improved the existing deep convolutional spatiotemporal fusion network (DCSTFN) to further boost model prediction accuracy and enhance image quality. The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, the fusion result is improved considerably with brand-new network architecture and a novel compound loss function. Experiments conducted in two different areas demonstrate these improvements by comparing them with existing algorithms. The enhanced DCSTFN model shows superior performance with higher accuracy, vision quality, and robustness. Second, the advantages and disadvantages of existing deeplearningbased spatiotemporal fusion models are comparatively discussed and a network design guide for spatiotemporal fusion is provided as a reference for future research. Those comparisons and guidelines are summarized based on numbers of actual experiments and have promising potentials to be applied for other image sources with customized spatiotemporal fusion networks. Full article
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Big Geospatial Data or Geospatial Big Data? A Systematic Narrative Review on the Use of Spatial Data Infrastructures for Big Geospatial Sensing Data in Public Health
by Keumseok Koh, Ayaz Hyder, Yogita Karale and Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(13), 2996; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14132996 - 23 Jun 2022
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Background: Often combined with other traditional and non-traditional types of data, geospatial sensing data have a crucial role in public health studies. We conducted a systematic narrative review to broaden our understanding of the usage of big geospatial sensing, ancillary data, and related [...] Read more.
Background: Often combined with other traditional and non-traditional types of data, geospatial sensing data have a crucial role in public health studies. We conducted a systematic narrative review to broaden our understanding of the usage of big geospatial sensing, ancillary data, and related spatial data infrastructures in public health studies. Methods: English-written, original research articles published during the last ten years were examined using three leading bibliographic databases (i.e., PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) in April 2022. Study quality was assessed by following well-established practices in the literature. Results: A total of thirty-two articles were identified through the literature search. We observed the included studies used various data-driven approaches to make better use of geospatial big data focusing on a range of health and health-related topics. We found the terms ‘big’ geospatial data and geospatial ‘big data’ have been inconsistently used in the existing geospatial sensing studies focusing on public health. We also learned that the existing research made good use of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) for geospatial sensing data but did not fully use health SDIs for research. Conclusions: This study reiterates the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration as a prerequisite to fully taking advantage of geospatial big data for future public health studies. Full article
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An Overview of Platforms for Big Earth Observation Data Management and Analysis
by Vitor C. F. Gomes, Gilberto R. Queiroz and Karine R. Ferreira
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(8), 1253; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12081253 - 16 Apr 2020
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In recent years, Earth observation (EO) satellites have generated big amounts of geospatial data that are freely available for society and researchers. This scenario brings challenges for traditional spatial data infrastructures (SDI) to properly store, process, disseminate and analyze these big data sets. [...] Read more.
In recent years, Earth observation (EO) satellites have generated big amounts of geospatial data that are freely available for society and researchers. This scenario brings challenges for traditional spatial data infrastructures (SDI) to properly store, process, disseminate and analyze these big data sets. To meet these demands, novel technologies have been proposed and developed, based on cloud computing and distributed systems, such as array database systems, MapReduce systems and web services to access and process big Earth observation data. Currently, these technologies have been integrated into cutting edge platforms in order to support a new generation of SDI for big Earth observation data. This paper presents an overview of seven platforms for big Earth observation data management and analysis—Google Earth Engine (GEE), Sentinel Hub, Open Data Cube (ODC), System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring (SEPAL), openEO, JEODPP, and pipsCloud. We also provide a comparison of these platforms according to criteria that represent capabilities of the EO community interest. Full article
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