SMART: A Service-Oriented Statistical Analysis Framework on Spatio-Temporal Big Data (Short Paper)

Spatiotemporal big data have multisource, heterogeneous, high-dimensional and spatiotemporal associations. Due to the limited computing and network resources, while the spatiotemporal data to be rendered are large and dynamic, efficient visual analysis has always been a popular topic and has had difficulty in the research of spatiotemporal big data. As one of the important means of big data visualization, thermal maps play an important role in expressing data flow, information flow, and trajectory flow. At the same time, the development of a distributed computing framework also provides technical support for the online calculation and visualization of spatiotemporal data streams. In response to the above problems, this paper designs and implements GeoMapViz, a distributed management based on massive spatiotemporal data streams and a multiscale geographic spatial visualization framework, which is oriented by the expression of thermal maps of massive point datasets. First, based on the concept of the tile pyramid model and spatiotemporal cube, we propose a thermal map sequential tile pyramid (TS_Tile) model, which realizes scalable storage and efficient retrieval of data flow. GeoMapViz adopts a high-performance Flink stream computing cluster to implement the large-scale parallel construction of hierarchical tile pyramids, implements distributed storage and index construction of data based on HBase and Geomesa, and uses Geoserver to manage the map service to provide a spatiotemporal range query interface. Finally, through using an open dataset as a system simulation test, the results show that the TS_Tile model can effectively organize large-scale, time-space and multidimensional thermal map data, and the query and visualization of the heatmap can reach a subsecond response. Furthermore, GeoMapViz supports the integration of the thermal map and original flow and provides a feasible solution for the visual analysis of large-scale spatiotemporal data.

Modeling big spatio-temporal geo-hazards data for forecasting by error-correction cointegration and dimension-reduction

Spatio-temporal data are continuously generated and grow exponentially with the rapid proliferation of mobile devices. Efficient storage and indexing of spatio-temporal Big Data are crucial for supporting fast queries. Due to their high write throughput and scalability, distributed NoSQL data stores such as HBase are widely adopted as storage engines in spatio-temporal Big Data systems. These systems require a key-value-based storage model to convert one or a group of spatio-temporal data points into a single key-value pair. However, existing techniques cannot govern an inherent dilemma caused by adding a time dimension within spatial information, that is, we can either optimize for space-preferred or time-preferred queries but not both. In this paper, we propose Cymo, a flexible storage model with query-aware indexing that dynamically adapts to varying query patterns across different spatial regions and evolving query behaviors over time. Our key idea is to partition the spatio-temporal space into multiple subspaces, allowing each subspace to optimize its storage model based on its specific query characteristics. Cymo features a learning model that predicts query patterns for each subspace using historical workloads. Additionally, it introduces a virtual layer that abstracts the heterogeneity of different storage models, providing a unified query interface. This design ensures that storage model variations remain transparent to applications while enabling effective query optimization based on diverse query patterns. We have implemented Cymo on HBase and integrated it into GeoMesa, a representative spatio-temporal Big Data system. Experimental results on real taxi datasets demonstrate that Cymo significantly improves query performance, achieving speedups of 1.53× to 10× compared to GeoMesa. The open-source implementation of Cymo has been released for public access.

With the rapid development and popularization of vehicle networking technology, the spatio-temporal big data generated by vehicles has brought new opportunities to the field of marketing. This paper aims to explore the marketing path analysis based on the spatiotemporal big data of the Internet of vehicles, and provide accurate marketing strategies for enterprises by digging deeply into vehicle driving data, driving habits and location information, etc. First, this paper introduces the basic concepts and characteristics of spatiotemporal big data of the Internet of vehicles, then introduces the collection and processing of the data of the Internet of vehicles, and then builds the feature engineering and the text based on CatBoost model to predict the future of consumers. Finally, this paper analyzes the application strategy path of spatiotemporal big data in marketing, including precision marketing, personalized recommendation and precision advertising based on user portraits. The method proposed in this paper can not only improve user experience, but also create higher business value for enterprises.

Spatiotemporal data mining is the core research topic of geographic information science. In the era of big data, the explosive growth of geographic spatiotemporal data puts forward an urgent demand for spatiotemporal knowledge discovery, which promotes the continuous development of spatiotemporal data mining technology. However, the universal heterogeneity and sparse distribution characteristics of spatiotemporal big data restrict the realization of spatiotemporal data mining algorithms, and significantly affect the description and analysis capabilities of natural and social complex systems. Thus, this paper focuses on the series of bottlenecks faced in the expression and application of heterogeneous and sparsely distributed spatiotemporal data. We systematically summarized the research status and existing problems of several key spatiotemporal mining tasks including missing spatiotemporal data interpolation, sparse spatiotemporal data reconstruction, and spatiotemporal state prediction, condensed four key scientific problems, and gave four corresponding solutions. The proposed methods are expected to enrich the method system in the field of spatiotemporal data mining and improve the quality and application value of spatiotemporal data modeling.

In environmental sciences, it is common to collect and analyze spatio-temporal multivariate data concerning several variables which are measured in time over a spatial domain. The spatio-temporal data are usually sparce in space, due to the high cost of the equipment, and temporal dense since the required variables are regularly sampled in time.In the literature different methods have been proposed for the analysis of such spatio-temporal data which exhibit a correlation in space and time as well as in-between variables. Among them it is worth recalling the generalization of Blind Source Separation technique for multivariate space-time random field (stBSS) and the space-time linear coregionalization model (ST-LCM). These methods are useful to simplify the spatio-temporal multivariate analysis since by a linear transformation of the original observations only the independent components which exhibit a spatio-temporal correlation are retained (lower than the number of observed variables) and modelled.In this paper a multivariate study regarding seven environmental variables (evapotranspiration level, minimum and maximum temperature, minimum and maximum humidity, wind speed and precipitation) measured between 2000 and 2022 in Veneto region (Italy) will be proposed.  Both the stBSS and the joint diagonalization of the empirical covariance matrix approach will be used to identify the hidden components, and properly chosen spatio-temporal models will be fitted to the latent components. Note that for the first approach a BSS model for the multivariate random field will be assumed, whereas for second one a space-time linear coregionalization model (ST-LCM) for the independent components will be fitted to the matrix-valued covariance function estimated for seven relevant environmental variables.Finally, the fitted models have been used to predict evapotranspiration levels and a comparison of the values obtained by using the two different techniques will be provided.

HKUST Electronic Theses Urban events mining from spatiotemporal big data by Mingyang Zhang thesis 2022 1 online resource (xiii, 138 pages) : illustrations (some color) Urban events are the sets of real-world occurrences in urban space associated with specific topics.…Read more ›

This study investigated how to manage and use the spatio-temporal data during land use. To realize spatio-temporal data mining, the key issue to be solved in technology is how to organize spatio-temporal data. The spatio-temporal data model is just generated to solve this problem. According to analysis of spatio-temporal data changing character, two factors are very important in spatio-temporal data model. One is object, and the other is event. The object is an essential element that comprises spatio-temporal data information. The event is a fundamental factor that result in changing spatio-temporal data. A new spatio-temporal data model based on both object and event (OESTDM) was put forward to meet the demand. How to organize data, build relations between objects and storage data in spatio-temporal database are also emphatically discussed. At last, a dynamic land use information system based on OESTDM is presented. The system realized the function of managing spatio-temporal data, the retrospect of history information, tracing land parcel change, Area-Data-Change-Statistic and Analysis, and so on efficiently, by taking the land parcel data of some regions in Zhejiang province for study.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first identified at the end of 2019, significantly impacts the regional environment and human health. This study assesses PM2.5 exposure and health risk during COVID-19, and its driving factors have been analyzed using spatiotemporal big data, including Tencent location-based services (LBS) data, place of interest (POI), and PM2.5 site monitoring data. Specifically, the empirical orthogonal function (EOF) is utilized to analyze the spatiotemporal variation of PM2.5 concentration firstly. Then, population exposure and health risks of PM2.5 during the COVID-19 epidemic have been assessed based on LBS data. To further understand the driving factors of PM2.5 pollution, the relationship between PM2.5 concentration and POI data has been quantitatively analyzed using geographically weighted regression (GWR). The results show the time series coefficients of monthly PM2.5 concentrations distributed with a U-shape, i.e., with a decrease followed by an increase from January to December. In terms of spatial distribution, the PM2.5 concentration shows a noteworthy decline over the Central and North China. The LBS-based population density distribution indicates that the health risk of PM2.5 in the west is significantly lower than that in the Middle East. Urban gross domestic product (GDP) and urban green area are negatively correlated with PM2.5; while, road area, urban taxis, urban buses, and urban factories are positive. Among them, the number of urban factories contributes the most to PM2.5 pollution. In terms of reducing the health risks and PM2.5 pollution, several pointed suggestions to improve the status has been proposed.

Availability of location-based services and mobile computing enabled the collection of spatial and temporal data. Spatiotemporal database integrates spatial and temporal aspects of data. The objective of this chapter is to offer conceptual clarity and state of the art technologies and tools for spatiotemporal data engineering. This chapter discusses spatiotemporal data representation, modeling, and database design, indexing, analysis, and mining for developing the applications. It also covers spatiotemporal big data processing systems.

Due to the increasing volume of spatio-temporal data generated from remote sensing, sensor networks and computational simulation, there is a need for a generic, domain-independent framework for spatio-temporal data analysis. This research presents a generic set of data processing and manipulation tools for spatio-temporal raster data called multidimensional map algebra (MMA). MMA is an extension of conventional map algebra that operates not only on data that are two-dimensional in space but also on data that are: (1) one-dimensional in time; (2) both two-dimensional in space and one-dimensional in time; (3) three-dimensional in space; and (4) both three-dimensional in space and one-dimensional in time. MMA data types, neighborhoods, lags, and functions are presented, including rules for combining data types of different dimensionality within local, focal, and zonal functions. A prototype implementation in JAVA is provided as a demonstration and syntax specification for the functions. Challenges to continued development of MMA include performance and efficiency issues for processing very large multidimensional data sets.

Smart cities cannot be separated from spatiotemporal location big data. This paper summarizes the needs of spatiotemporal location big data for public epidemic events at home and abroad, investigates the specific services that current spatiotemporal location big data can provide in public epidemic events, and discusses the current stage of spatiotemporal location big data services that cannot meet the requirements of public epidemic events. This paper also focuses on how to improve the spatiotemporal location big data services in the next stage to better serve the public epidemic prevention and control, and gives advice on spatio-temporal location service construction at ordinary times and data sharing mechanism in wartime. This paper aims to take scientific measures to improve the spatiotemporal big data services, strives to establish a technical support system for public epidemic prevention and control at ordinary times, and introduces a wartime spatiotemporal location big data sharing mechanism for epidemic prevention and control.

Application of stable isotopically labelled (SIL) molecules in Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MALDI-MSI) over a series of time points allows the temporal and spatial dynamics of biochemical reactions to be tracked in a biological system. However, these large kinetic MSI datasets and the inherent variability of biological replicates presents significant challenges to the rapid analysis of the data. In addition, manual annotation of downstream SIL metabolites involves human input to carefully analyse the data based on prior knowledge and personal expertise. To overcome these challenges to the analysis of spatiotemporal MALDI-MSI data and improve the efficiency of SIL metabolite identification, a bioinformatics pipeline has been developed and demonstrated by analysing normal bovine lens glucose metabolism as a model system. The pipeline consists of spatial alignment to mitigate the impact of sample variability and ensure spatial comparability of the temporal data, dimensionality reduction to rapidly map regional metabolic distinctions within the tissue, and metabolite annotation coupled with pathway enrichment modules to summarise and display the metabolic pathways induced by the treatment. This pipeline will be valuable for the spatial metabolomics community to analyse kinetic MALDI-MSI datasets, enabling rapid characterisation of spatio-temporal metabolic patterns from tissues of interest.

The amount of sources and sheer volumes of spatiotemporal data have met an unprecedented growth during the last decade. As a consequence, a rapidly increasing number of applications are seeking to generate value by crunching those data. The development of a system that will tap into the potential value of the spatiotemporal big data analysis for a multitude of applications remains one of the biggest challenges in computer engineering. This paper delves into the key-characteristics of the most prominent suchlike systems. In particular, it provides a thorough analysis of NoSQL datastores as well as a traditional relational database system in terms of their geospatial querying capabilities.

This tutorial provides instruction on how to use the eye tracking technology built into virtual reality (VR) headsets, emphasizing the analysis of head and eye movement data when an observer is situated in the center of an omnidirectional environment. We begin with a brief description of how VR eye movement research differs from previous forms of eye movement research, as well as identifying some outstanding gaps in the current literature. We then introduce the basic methodology used to collect VR eye movement data both in general and with regard to the specific data that we collected to illustrate different analytical approaches. We continue with an introduction of the foundational ideas regarding data analysis in VR, including frames of reference, how to map eye and head position, and event detection. In the next part, we introduce core head and eye data analyses focusing on determining where the head and eyes are directed. We then expand on what has been presented, introducing several novel spatial, spatio-temporal, and temporal head-eye data analysis techniques. We conclude with a reflection on what has been presented, and how the techniques introduced in this tutorial provide the scaffolding for extensions to more complex and dynamic VR environments.