Earth Observation Data Mining: Spatio-temporal Patterns Discovery in Heterogenous Data
Mihai P. Datcu · elib (German Aerospace Center) · 2013
Satellite and airborne sensors provide objective observations with broad coverage across both space and time, enabling a reliable global monitoring of the Earth environment evolution. These observations are never interpreted in isolation, they are processed and analyzed using their metadata, multitemporal or multisenor observations, other scientific data or geoinformation. The methods of Data Mining support the comprehensive use and understanding of data by sorting through a huge amount of Earth Observation and other heterogeneous data to detect patterns and processes that otherwise would remain unknown.