Scale-Dependent Spatial Data Mining

摘要

Scale is a major concept in many sciences concerned with human activities and physical processes occurring in the world, and directly related to many investigations of spatial objects, including the procedure of spatial data mining. In this paper, we attempt to apply the spatial data mining to the field of coal mining, and the technical notion is to generate patterns or rules by means of different scale databases that depict the same subject. The whole research procedure gives readers an understanding of how processes operate at different scales and how they can be linked across scales. At the same time, our study actually presents a new method of image mining as well.