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Chapter 16
Handling intensities of data,
computation, concurrent access,
and spatiotemporal patterns
Qunying Huang, Zhenlong Li, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia,
Yunfeng Jiang, Chen Xu, and Chaowei Yang
The advancements of geoscience involve dealing with intensities of data,
computation, concurrent access, and spatiotemporal patterns. This chap-
ter discusses each of the intensities, and introduces through examples the
potential solutions to address the intensity challenges using cloud services.
16.1 INTRODUCTION
The Earth and its belongings evolve in a four dimensional (4D) world.
Geosciences study the patterns and possible trends of this evolution of
sp ...