PoSDMS: A Mining System for Oceanic Dynamics with Time Series of Raster-Formatted Datasets

Abstract

Many effective and advanced methods have been developed to explore oceanic dynamics using time series of raster-formatted datasets; however, they have generally been designed at a scale suitable for data observation and used independently of each other, despite the potential advantages of combining different modules into an integrated system at a scale suited for dynamic evolution. From raster-formatted datasets to marine knowledge, we developed and integrated several mining algorithms at a dynamic evolutionary scale and combined them into six modules: a module of raster-formatted dataset pretreatment; a module of process-oriented object extraction; a module of process-oriented representation and management (process-oriented graph database); a module of process-oriented clustering; a module of process-oriented association rule mining; and a module of process-oriented visualization. On the basis of such modules, we developed a process-oriented spatiotemporal dynamic mining system named PoSDMS (Process-oriented Spatiotemporal Dynamics Mining System). PoSDMS was designed to have the capacity to deal with at least six environments of marine anomalies with 40 years of raster-formatted datasets, including their extraction, representation, storage, clustering, association and visualization. The effectiveness of the integrated system was evaluated in a case study of sea surface temperature datasets during the period from January 1982 to December 2021 in global oceans. The main contribution of this study was the development of a mining system at a scale suited for dynamic evolution, providing an analyzing platform or tool to deal with time series of raster-formatted datasets to aid in obtaining marine knowledge.