1st International Workshop on Heterogeneous-Data Mining and KDD
in Support of Earth Observation - KKDEO 2010

27-28 October, 2010 - Valencia, Spain

In conjunction with the 2nd International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery,
Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - IC3K 2010

Co-chairs

Roger King
Mississippi State University
U.S.A.


Nick Younan
Mississippi State University
U.S.A.

Mihai Datcu
German Aerospace Center
Germany


Scope and Topics
The volume and diversity of data is a major challenge to the existing data exploitation and dissemination approaches used by the various national agencies (e.g., ESA, NASA, NOAA) charged with extracting information from these data. With plans to enlarge the application areas, the challenge is increasingly going to be how to enlarge the usability of the millions of images being stored in archives and being collected in real-time for a larger and larger group of end-user applications (e.g., climate change, security, land use, weather).

The Earth Observation (EO) Image analyst needs to identify image elements of interest, find a model-based correspondence to the semantics assumed, and explain the observed scene. The new methods are necessary to help the human operator, in a separate interaction loop, to generate functions for the aggregation of the obtained image elements and add desired semantics. Also, such methods should suggest to the operator the semantic annotation of the data, supporting bodies of knowledge, and position the domain ontology. To deal with the challenge of recognition and understanding of the huge variability and diversity of land cover structures and objects, it is necessary to analyze all available sources of information including multi-temporal, multi-sensor EO imagery, in-situ information, maps, GIS or textual data. Thus, new specific techniques of Knowledge Bases, Image Information Mining, KDD and Visualization need to be integrated.

The workshop aims at soliciting contributions in the following or related topics:

› Heterogeneous data analysis
› Category discovery
› Efficient search based on dynamically generated data models
› Advanced DB techniques
› Image information integration with map or GIS-like information
› Bridging the semantic gap for EO applications
› "Spatialisation" of semantics, and ontologies for spatial data
› Fusion and enriching of EO images with, the image product metadata, Internet tagged resources, photography, text, maps, etc…
› Access (search engines) to large spatial data, distributed repositories
› Optimal IT system design (man-machine communication, information and knowledge share, optimal access to resources, etc...)
› Semantic catalogues for data bases indexing content

Important Dates

Regular Paper Submission: June 28, 2010

Authors Notification: July 20, 2010

Final Paper Submission and Registration: July 30, 2010

Workshop Program Committee
Available soon.
Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support.
Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by July 30, 2010, the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings book.


Secretariat Contacts

IC3K Workshops - KKDEO 2010
e-mail: ic3k.secretariat@insticc.org
Weblink: http://www.ic3k.org/KKDEO.asp