Multitemporal remote sensing has become an important data-gathering tool for analysing these changes.
In general, it is anticipated that decentralization will become an important data-sharing concept in the future (Murray-Rust, 2008; Stein, 2008; Thorisson et al., 2009).
With wide deployment of cameras in urban transportation systems, the surveillance video becomes an important data source to conduct vehicle counting.
Due to the technological evolution of data acquisition systems, 3D laser scanning points' clouds became an important data source that enables the subsequent representation of 3D surface's geometries, and thus the constitution of data repositories.
Due to their significant advantages in timeliness, efficiency, and transparency, search data have the potential, with adequate validation, to become an important complementary data source for researchers and decision-makers studying the effects of public health policies in local and international settings.
These data become an important issue to link data from pharmacological assays and clinical effects.
Digital repeat photography has the potential to become an important long-term data source for phenological research given its advantages in terms of logistics, continuity, consistency and objectivity over traditional assessments of vegetation status by human observers.
In recent years, medical quality registries have become an important source of data in registry-based research.
Visualizing RNAseq data has become an important matter in Analysis of sequencing data.
This has not been a common practice in previous eras, but today the "pay-as-you-go" economic models have become an important variable of (big) data production, consumption, and processing.
