Agriculture Big Data: Research Status, Challenges and Countermeasures

Abstract

Agriculture data type and amount in human society is growing in an amazing speed which is caused by the emerging of agricultural Internet of things. The growth of agricultural data volume brought many difficulties in storage and analysis. The realization of the big data and cloud computing technologies provides the solution of these problems. The cloud computing and big data technologies can be applied in agriculture to solve the problems in storage and analysis. This paper elaborates the related concept of agricultural big data briefly, and emphasizes some current researches, the challenges that agricultural big data should face in the future and its countermeasures.