Selected Papers from the Workshop on Geospatial Big Data–Trends, Applications, and Challenges (GBD-TAC)

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue on “Geospatial Big Data–Trends, Applications, and Challenges (GBD-TAC)” aims to bring leading researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields and operating on data collection, processing, storage, and visualization to present and promote their latest research and development works and discuss current trends, applications, and challenges related to Geospatial Big Data (GBD).

Geospatial Big Data has become ubiquitous in modern society, and are currently attracting increasing research and development attention in a wide range of domains. Efforts made so far have resulted in substantial progress in understanding the content and characteristics of this new form of data, developing methods and tools for acquiring and disseminating such information, and understanding their social impact. Despite this progress, Geospatial Big Data still face many challenges, particularly related poor data quality, semantic heterogeneity as data comes from different sources, and data security. Assessing the Geospatial Big Data authenticity, validity, and uncertainty, determining the appropriate sources of data, overcoming heterogeneity barriers, and ultimately understanding what motivates individuals and social networks to contribute to Geospatial Big Data efforts are key issues that need to be addressed. You are cordially invited to submit a paper for consideration.

We particularly solicit original research contributions, position papers, and surveys addressing the themes below.

• Geospatial information acquisition and dissemination methods in the context of Big Data
• Security issues in acquisition and dissemination of geospatial data
• Uncertainty in GBD
• Geospatial Data quality issues
• GBD life-cycle and interoperability
• Semantic heterogeneity issues in GBD
• Social networks and GBD
• The relationship between GBD, Volunteered geographic information (VGI), crowdsourcing, and related concepts
• GBD analytics and processing
• GBD for improved decision-making and Business Intelligence
• The impacts of big data on designing Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• GBD and hazard management
• GBD and pattern discovery
• Open data
• Unstructured data
• Smart GBD

Dr. Tarek Sboui
Dr. Joel Grira
Guest Editors

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• Geospatial/Spatial Big Data (GBD)
• Spatial heterogeneity
• Uncertainty in Spatial data
• Spatial data quality
• Spatial data and social networks
• Internet of things
• Decision-making and Business Intelligence