BIG DATA IN WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING (BDWRE)
One of the emerging challenges in the 21th century era is collecting and handling ‘Big Data’. The definition of big data changes from one area to other over time. Big data as its name implies is unstructured data that is very big, fast, hard and comes in many forms. Though the applications of big data was confined to information technology before 21st technology, now it is of emerging area in almost all engineering specializations. But for water managers/engineers, big data is showing big promise in many water related applications such as planning optimum water systems, detecting ecosystem changes through big remote sensing and geographical information system, forecasting/predicting/detecting natural and manmade calamities, scheduling irrigations, mitigating environmental pollution, studying climate change impacts etc. This study reviewed the basic information about big data, applications of big data in water resources engineering related studies, advantages and disadvantages of big data. Further, this study presented some of review of literature which has been done on big data applications in water resources engineering.
Editor in Chief
Dr. Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema
Dean/Associate Professor
Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Managing Editor
Engr. Saddam Hussain Wahla
Department of Irrigation and Drainage, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan,
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, USA
Email: bigdata.water@gmail.com
Associate Editors
Dr. Muhammad Mazhar Iqbal
Graduate School of Water Resources, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ru, Suwon-si, Republic of Korea,
Water Management Training Institute (WMTI), Department of Agriculture (Water Management Wing), Govt. of the Punjab, Pakistan.
Engr. Muhammad Sohail Waqas
AEE, Soil Conservation Group, Punjab Agriculture Department (Field Wing), Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Editorial Board
Dr. Siham Acharki
GAT Team (Géoinformation et Aménagement du Territoire), Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier, 90000, Morocco
Dr. Ahmed Elbeltagi
Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
Dr. Lubna Anjum
Department of Irrigation and Drainage,
Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology,
University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Engr. Dr. Shanawar Hamid
Department of Agricultural Engineering at
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering &
Technology, Rahim Yar Khan
Engr. Dr. Yasir Niaz
(Head of the department) Department of
Agricultural Engineering at Khwaja Fareed
University of Engineering & Technology,
Rahim Yar Khan (PhD Env. Engg, CHINA)
Dr. Arfan Arshad
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;
Dept. of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Dr. Engr. M. Mohsin Khan
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture BioSystem Engineering and Technology, MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan-Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Awais
National Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Muhammad Ali Qamar
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Engr. Nazar Hussain
Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering,
University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Engr. Zia Ul Hassan
Department of Applied Geology, Major Urban Water Hydrology, Zia Ul Hassan, Kent State University Kent OHIO, USA
Engr. Muhammad Usman Liaqat
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy
Dr. Muhammad Aslam
Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Engr. Hassan Afzal
Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Dr. Engr. Muhammad Shafeeque
Climate Lab, Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, Germany
Adil Dilawar
State Key Laboratory of Resource and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China;
College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Muhammad Saboor Siddique
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People’s Republic of China;
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
Dr. Abdul Mannan
Department of agronomy , University of the Punjab, Lahore Pakistan
Dr. Ahthasham Sajid
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of ICT, BUITEMS, Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Usman Khan Ahmadi
Norwegian Church Aid, a Humanitarian International organization in Kabul Afghanistan. And graduated from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan.
Saba Malik
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan