Geospatial Data Mining

Catalog description

This course equips students with the theoretical background and practical computational skills required to use data mining methodologies, including clustering, PCA, spatial autocorrelation, neural networks, classification and regression trees, and high performance, open source geocomputation. The course is designed around, and pays particular attention to, approaches for data with spatial components. Students are expected to have a working knowledge of basic geographic principles, statistical principles, GIS, and remote sensing. Some experience with R programming would also be beneficial.