Investigation into the efficacy of geospatial big data visualization tools

Big Data is a new emerging field as well as a big challenge. A vast amount of data is generated and stored daily and only 20% of data is structured. It is difficult to analyze and work on unstructured data. Geospatial data has already exceeded the storage capacity and is now considered as a big data problem. Visualizing data makes things a bit easier as data visualization helps in finding patterns and relationships in the data. There exist several visualization tools that are especially designed for geospatial data. In the present paper, it has been investigated and reviewed some of the popular tools for geospatial big data visualizations. Whitebox GAT, ArcMap, GeoMesa, HadoopViz and GRASS GIS are the tools which have been critically analyzed for geospatial big data visualization. Finally, it has been summarized with suitable recommendation as per the various parameters like code availability, desktop processing, online processing, mobile client processing, online course availability and various API compatibilities according to the requirements.

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