Sciences: environmental sciences

  • Authors:
  • Saso Dzeroski

  • Affiliations:
  • Senior Scientific Associate and Assistant Professor, Department of Intelligent Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • Handbook of data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Environmental sciences are concerned with the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the environment. They cover an extremely broad range of topics, such as biodiversity, climate change, forestry, and freshwater ecology, and are relevant to practical issues of environmental management. In this article, we attempt to give an overview of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) applications in environmental sciences, complemented with a sample of case studies. The latter are described in slightly more detail and used to illustrate KDD-related issues that arise in environmental applications. The application domains addressed range from ecological modeling to remote sensing.