Use of Big Data and Geomatics Tools for Monitoring and Combating Pandemics

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the need for rapid and digital monitoring means for managing information relating to the spread of the virus. The researchers have produced some innovative experiments in this sense, using geomatics technologies and technologies for the treatment of Big Data. In this research, we used an integrated platform (still under experimentation and validation) that allows the treatment of Big Data to obtain forecast models that can be viewed in a GIS. The advantages of the proposed methodology are the ability to use and correlate a lot of data together through a single platform and view the results on a WebGIS platform. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.