Data science for geoscience: Leveraging mathematical geosciences with semantics and open data

Abstract

Mathematical geosciences are now in an intelligent stage. The freshly new data environment enabled by the Semantic Web and Open Data poses both new challenges and opportunities for the conduction of geomathematical research. As an interdisciplinary domain, mathematical geosciences share many topics in common with data science. Facing the new data environment, will data science inject new blood into mathematical geosciences, and can data science benefit from the achievements and experiences of mathematical geosciences? This chapter presents a perspective on these questions and introduces a few recent case studies on data management and data analysis in the geosciences.