Guest editorial: special issue on big data for effective disaster management (In Memorial of Tao Li).

Highlights from the article: Recently, however, people's mobile phone data, GPS trajectories data, location-based online social networking data, surveillance video data, satellite imagery and IC card data have become readily available and this information has increased explosively. B Memorial of Dr. Tao Li: b As the initial Lead Guest Editor of this Special Issue, Dr. Tao Li, a talented Professor of Computer Science at Florida International University, suffered a stroke during a doctoral defense on December 6, 2017.