HyperMINE ? An earth observation spatio-temporal data mining system

The increasing number of satellite missions for Earth exploration provides huge amounts of data. These data are of wide diversity regarding the images characteristics, thus new techniques and tools need to be developed to accommodate the extraction of meaningful information. This paper presents An Earth Observation Spatio-Temporal Data Mining System (HyperMINE), which integrates fast and complex query methods in order to generate SITS (Satellite Image Time Series) regarded as a data hypercube. The multidimensional data, considering geographical space, time, band, and satellite/sensor are used as input for information mining algorithms. The system is built on a modular multilayer architecture that allows effective processing of various sources of data.