CONS 127 Lecture Notes - Spring 2018 Lecture 19 - Big data, Phenology
21 Sep 2018
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Ability to compare this data sets with other data sets. Velocity: the speed at which the data comes in. Remote sensing is big data as it meets all 4 vs! Big data is hard to categorize, so we get citizens to collect data for us! Then, we are able to use the data collected from citizens and compare it to the data collected by satellites to further our understanding in earth observation. Definition: we have the public help us gather and analyze data. Citizen science has become so popular through the usage of smartphones! Well phones now as so popular in collecting data i. e. modern smartphones have gps, counter, gynometer, direction, compass. The public find birds outside and take pictures and upload this data to the. This app then logs all the data into a great database where all the locations of the birds seen are mapped out.
