Despite the wide availability of remote sensing big data from numerous different Earth Observation (EO) instruments, the limitations in the spatial and temporal resolution of such EO sensors (as well as atmospheric opacity and other kinds of interferers) have led to many situations in which using only remote sensing data cannot fully meet the requirements of applications in which a (near) real-time response is needed. Examples of these applications include floods, earthquakes, and other kinds of natural disasters, such as typhoons. To address this issue, social media data have gradually been adopted to fill possible gaps in the analysis when remote sensing data are lacking or incomplete. In this case, the fusion of heterogeneous big data streams from multiple data sources introduces significant demands from a computational viewpoint. In order to meet these challenges,
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