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The four aspects for spatiotemporal intensity contribute directly to
the intensities of data, computation, and concurrent access (Table16.1).
Therefore, the computing solutions for the other three intensities can also
be utilized to tackle the spatiotemporal intensive problems.
16.6 SUMMARY
This chapter laid out the grand challenges that geoscience faces in the 21st
century—the intensiveness of data, computing, concurrent access, and
spatiotemporal analysis. Yang etal. (2011b) argue that the latest advance-
ments of cloud computing provide a potential solution to address these ...