Hassan A. (University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) Karimi 
Big Data [PDF ebook] 
Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics

Big data has always been a major challenge in geoinformatics as geospatial data come in various types and formats, new geospatial data are acquired very fast, and geospatial databases are inherently very large. And while there have been advances in hardware and software for handling big data, they often fall short of handling geospatial big data ef