Foreword
In this digital era, the size of the data involved in countless applications of our
society has been increased substantially. Therefore, new computational methods,
algorithms, and infrastructures are highly demanded in order to handle such sets of
big data more efficiently, mainly in numerous real-time applications, requiring less
powerful computational resources, so can be processed by common computational
solutions.
Among the various areas where big data sets have become common, the ones
related to Remote Sensing and information and communication technology are
foremost, since the datasets involved have reached huge dimensions, which makes
exceptionally complex their visualization, analysis, and interpretation. Therefore,
this book assumes imperative and timely significance for these areas by presenting,
discussing, and suggesting applications, infrastructures, methods, and techniques to
overcome the present drawbacks. Five chapters are included in this book addressing
issues of big data in e-health, aerial and satellite imagery, many-particle systems,
earth science, and Remote Sensing.
The three editors of this book are well-known academics and researchers:
Dr. Nilanjan Dey is Professor at Techno India College of Technology, is editor of
several international journals, editor of various books published by renowned
publishers, is co-author of numerous articles published in the most respectable
journals and conferences, has supervised several M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and
organized many scientific events. Dr. Dey’s research interests include medical
imaging, soft computing, data mining, machine learning, rough set, mathematical
modeling and computer simulation, biomedical systems, robotics, information
hiding and security. Dr. Chintan Bhatt is Assistant Professor at Charotar University
of Science and Technology, is co-author of several articles published in journals
and conferences, has organized speci al sessions devoted to Internet of Things and
big data, and his research topics are: Data Mining, Networking, Big Data, Internet
of Things and Mobile Computing. Dr. Amira S. Ashour is Professor and Vice Cha ir
of Computer Engineering Department, Computers and Information Technology
College, Taif University, is editor of journals and of books published by interna-
tional publishers, and co-author of numerous articles published in the most
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