Spatiotemporal data mining in the era of big spatial data

Abstract

Spatial data mining is the process of discovering interesting and previously unknown, but potentially useful patterns from the spatial and spatiotemporal data. However, explosive growth in the spatial and spatiotemporal data, and the emergence of social media and location sensing technologies emphasize the need for developing new and computationally efficient methods tailored for analyzing big data. In this paper, we review major spatial data mining algorithms by closely looking at the computational and I/O requirements and allude to few applications dealing with big spatial data.