
280 Q. Huang, Z.Li, K.Liu, J. Xia, Y. Jiang, C. Xu, and C. Yang
provide a general guideline for leveraging Hadoop in handling big
data challenges in the geospatial domain. Nevertheless, further stud-
ies are necessary for improving the completeness and performance of
these approaches as well as investigating other possible solutions.
16.3 COMPUTING INTENSITY
16.3.1 Introduction
Computing intensity is another issue that needs to be addressed in geosci-
ences. In the context of geoscience, computing-intensive issues are normally
raised by data mining for information/knowledge, parameters extraction,
and phenomena simulation (Yang etal. 2011a).