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Geospatial

Cyberinfrastructure

for Addressing the Big

Data Challenges on the

Worldwide Sensor Web

Steve H.L. Liang and Chih-Yuan Huang

13.1 INTRODUCTION

In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a

scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together.

It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices; thermostats, pressure

gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electroenceph-

alographs. These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere,

our ships, highways and eets of trucks, ou ...