Title
Improving bathymetric images exploration: A data mining approach
Abstract
Bathymetry is the science of measuring and charting the depths to determine the topography of the seafloor and other bodies of water. It has several important practical and academic applications. For this reason, having computational tools capable of analyzing bathymetric charts would be useful for domain experts studying the various problems related to water depth. Data mining is a well known technique for extracting information from large datasets, but cannot be directly applied to images. The contribution of this work is an approach for using data mining in bathymetry images. We propose a method for processing input images, in order to extract records and their features, which can be processed by classic data mining algorithms. Additionally, we also propose techniques to visualize both data mining results and map characteristics. For evaluation purposes, the proposed approach was applied to a cold-water corals dataset, in order to predict where corals are likely to be found, under a domain expert supervision.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.cageo.2012.12.009
Computers & Geosciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
bathymetric chart,data mining,cold-water corals dataset,academic application,classic data mining algorithm,data mining approach,water depth,improving bathymetric images exploration,domain expert supervision,domain expert,data mining result,image processing,bathymetry
Data mining,Bathymetric chart,Computer science,Subject-matter expert,Image processing,Bathymetry,Data mining algorithm
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
54,
0098-3004
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
8
3