What is Big Data? - Geographic Information System (GLS613)

   

Big data are “data sets that are so big they cannot be handled efficiently by common database management systems” (Dasgupta,2013). In other word, it also can be defined as the collection of data so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process the database into the application or tools.

In our daily lives, simple activity like listening to digital music, reading an e-book even browsing on your smart phone are now generating data which leaving a digital trace (data) and can be use and analyze from the data. In surveying concept, the Big Data can be formed from the GPS devices, Satellite remote sensing, LiDAR, Aerial Surveying, Hydrographic surveying and etc. As the modern concept of surveying method is created, the larger the data published from one survey works.

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