SCAPE: An Application Platform for Environmental Big Data Analysis in Smart Cities

Abstract

Abstract-Environment protection is a crucial part of a smart city. Environmental big data analysis is an important way to improve environment modeling and city planning, which plays an important role in environment protection. Applications for environmental big data analysis involves collecting, storing, processing, modeling and visualizing a huge amount of highly heterogeneous data, so a powerful application platform is needed to support them. In this paper, we propose an application platform for environmental big data analysis in smart cities, named SCAPE. Its design combines dataflow management and stream processing, big data platform and visualization engine. We evaluated the SCAPE platform by introducing a practical application about air pollution modeling. The case study of the practical application shows the SCAPE platform's capabilities to support environmental big data analysis applications.