Environmental Informatics. Cranfield University

‘Big data’ is being constantly gathered by real-time sensors, data loggers, satellite and aerial remote observation platforms, machinery and simulation outputs, such as climate-change models. Spatio-temporal knowledge from such data is required to improve our understanding and management of environmental systems and new informatics techniques can help achieve this. However, the sheer volumes of such data challenge traditional methods for structuring, manipulating and outputting information for decision support.