76 Big Data: Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics
With CDE and CSE, data and services in distributed systems can be accessed
and used over Internet from a single point of entry through machine-to-machine
interfaces.
4.2.2 serviCeability
The complexities of Earth sciences data cause big gaps between data users’ needs
and data providers’ capabilities. Bridging these gaps requires providing better Big
Data discovery, integration, visualization, analysis, and modeling services so that
data users could easily access, understand, and use the data provided. Problems still
remain because data in most current systems are not interoperable and lack sufcient
services to handle them. In order to support better Big Data discovery, integration, ...