Saint GIS

Be it clicks or likes; the networked world today is generating vast amounts of data at a significantly increasing rate. This together with exponentially increasing internal data is resulting in data explosion, popularly called “Big Data”. The history of Big Data traces its origin to 1940s; the earliest documented use of the term “information explosion” and today we have Big Data explosion in geography (geospatial data). Big data is a broad term for data sets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate (Wikipedia). Paleolithic petroglyphs to modern data centers, the human race has always dealt with information. With technology innovation, Moore’s law is becoming irrelevant and Parkinson's Law of Data; “Data expands to fill the space available for storage” is resulting in information overflow or so called Big Data. The world of Big Data is unfolding dramatically right before us from the amount of data being generated to the way in which it i...

The intelligence, defence and law enforcement communities increasingly rely on geospatial intelligence in today’s world of evolving terror threats, theatres of war, natural disasters and civil unrest. The ability of GIS to add spatial perspective to any data being analysed or monitored is the key to geo-intelligence. “Data is Power” and a key component that drives any geo-intelligence solution. Thanks to sensors and IoT (Internet of Things), big data is now a reality: the volume, variety and velocity of data coming into any geo-intelligence system continue to reach unprecedented levels. Geo-intelligence is about timely collection, exploitation and analysis of geospatial data, including sensor data, imagery etc to maximise operational capabilities, assess risk and informed decision-making. “Right Information” at the “Right Time” in the “Right Form” Many a time, at the critical hour, when the need is for a common operational picture the intelligence agencies end up with GIS interop...