Spatiotemporal data mining: A computational perspective

Shekhar, Shashi; Jiang, Zhe; Ali, Reem Y.; Eftelioglu, Emre; Tang, Xun; Gunturi, Venkata M.V.; Zhou, Xun

Abstract

Explosive growth in geospatial and temporal data as well as the emergence of new technologies emphasize the need for automated discovery of spatiotemporal knowledge. Spatiotemporal data mining studies the process of discovering interesting and previously unknown, but potentially useful patterns from large spatiotemporal databases. It has broad application domains including ecology and environmental management, public safety, transportation, earth science, epidemiology, and climatology. The complexity of spatiotemporal data and intrinsic relationships limits the usefulness of conventional data science techniques for extracting spatiotemporal patterns. In this survey, we review recent computational techniques and tools in spatiotemporal data mining, focusing on several major pattern families: spatiotemporal outlier, spatiotemporal coupling and tele-coupling, spatiotemporal prediction, spatiotemporal partitioning and summarization, spatiotemporal hotspots, and change detection. Compared with other surveys in the literature, this paper emphasizes the statistical foundations of spatiotemporal data mining and provides comprehensive coverage of computational approaches for various pattern families. We also list popular software tools for spatiotemporal data analysis. The survey concludes with a look at future research needs.

Citation

Shekhar, S., Jiang, Z., Ali, R. Y., Eftelioglu, E., Tang, X., Gunturi, V. M., & Zhou, X. (2015). Spatiotemporal data mining: A computational perspective. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(4), 2306-2338. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4042306

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 12, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Oct 28, 2015
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Sep 27, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 13, 2023
• Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
• Electronic ISSN: 2220-9964
• Publisher: MDPI
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 2306-2338
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4042306
• Keywords: Spatiotemporal data mining; Survey; Review; Spatiotemporal statistics; Spatiotemporal patterns
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4401692