@inproceedings{99513ed618914f5ea62cdad99a41c103,
title = "Discovering controlling factors of geospatial variables",
abstract = "Efficient means of determining factors controlling spatial distribution of an environmental class variable are of significant interest in Earth science. In this paper, we present a method for automated discovery of controlling factors by mining for emerging patterns in a database constructed from the fusion of several explanatory datasets. We introduce a new definition of pattern support to account for spatial character of the data and systematically evaluate the effectiveness of our technique using a real-world application pertaining to density of vegetation cover. Experimental results show that our method can successfully identify controlling factors for the presence of high vegetation cover.",
keywords = "Controlling factors, Emerging patterns, Spatial data mining",
author = "Tomasz Stepinski and Wei Ding and Eick, \{Christoph F.\}",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1145/1463434.1463492",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781605583235",
series = "GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems",
pages = "391--394",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM GIS 2008",
note = "16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM GIS 2008 ; Conference date: 05-11-2008 Through 07-11-2008",
}