Spatial Subgroup Discovery Applied to the Analysis of Vegetation Data

  • Authors:
  • Michael May;Lemonia Ragia

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PAKM '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We explore the application of Spatial Data Mining, the partially automated search for hidden patterns in georeferenced databases, to the analysis of ecological data. A version of the subgroup mining algorithm is described that searches for deviation patterns directly in a spatial database, automatically incorporating spatial information stored in a GIS into the hypothesis space of a data mining search. We discuss results obtained on a multirelational biodiversity data set recorded in Niger. Vegetation records are georeferenced and associated with a set of environmental parameters. Further data provide information on climate, soil conditions, and location of spatial objects like rivers, streets and cities. The subgroup mining finds dependencies of a plant species on other species, on local parameters and non-local environmental parameters.