Towards a Geospatial Big Data Platform for Geospatial Information Services

In the big data era, there are various geospatial data and processing algorithms that can be available and accessible on the Web. It is often necessary to access all these resources using standardized interfaces and services, and build an integrated platform with capabilities of geospatial big data management and processing. The work in this paper is an infrastructural design and software implementation towards a geospatial big data platform for geospatial information services. The infrastructure of the platform is designed with 4 subsystems: Geospatial Data Store, Geospatial Computing Store, Application Store and Management Center. Each of them is developed using latest Web and cloud computing technologies. Based on the infrastructural design and implementation software, several use cases running on the platform are presented to demonstrate the applicability and promise of the platform.