Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Advances in automated data collection are creating massive databases and a whole new field, Knowledge Discovery Databases (KDD), has emerged to develop new methods of managing and exploiting them. Data Mining is the interrogation of large databases using efficient computational methods. The unique challenges brought about by the storing of massive geographical databases - from high resolution satellite-based systems to data from intelligent transportation systems, for example - has led to the field of geographical knowledge discovery (GKD). Geographic or Spatial Data Mining is the exploration.