@inproceedings{16bd6b9a36be43ae9e54d1b2333c8da3,
title = "Visual analytics with unparalleled variety scaling for big earth data",
abstract = "We have devised and implemented a key technology, SpatioTemporal Adaptive-Resolution Encoding (STARE), in an array database management system, i.e. SciDB, to achieve unparalleled variety scaling for Big Earth Data, enabling rapid-response visual analytics. STARE not only serves as a unifying data representation homogenizing diverse varieties of Earth Science Datasets, but also supports spatiotemporal data placement alignment of these datasets to optimize a major class of Earth Science data analyses, i.e. those requiring spatiotemporal coincidence. Using STARE, we tailor a data partitioning and distribution strategy for the data access patterns of our scientific analysis, leading to optimal use of distributed resources. With STARE, rapid-response visual analytics are made possible through a high-level query interface, allowing geoscientists to perform data exploration visually, intuitively and interactively. We envision a system based on these innovations to relieve geoscientists of most laborious data management chores so that they may focus better on scientific issues and investigations. A significant boost in scientific productivity may thus be expected. We demonstrate these advantages with a prototypical system including comparisons to alternatives.",
keywords = "GIS, STARE, SciDB, array database, data analysis, indexing, load balancing, variety",
author = "Lina Yu and Rilee, {Michael L.} and Yu Pan and Feiyu Zhu and Kuo, {Kwo Sen} and Hongfeng Yu",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/BigData.2017.8257966",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "514--521",
editor = "Jian-Yun Nie and Zoran Obradovic and Toyotaro Suzumura and Rumi Ghosh and Raghunath Nambiar and Chonggang Wang and Hui Zang and Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Xiaohua Hu and Jeremy Kepner and Alfredo Cuzzocrea and Jian Tang and Masashi Toyoda",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017",
note = "5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017 ; Conference date: 11-12-2017 Through 14-12-2017",
}