Remote Sensing Data Informing the
Global Change Challenge
Sara J. Graves
Director of the Information
Technology and
Board of
Director of the
National Space Science and
S339 Technology
Hall
Huntsville,
AL USA 35899
Email:
sgraves@itsc.uah.edu
The
challenge of addressing global climate change requires a multidisciplinary
approach using many different types of data from various sources. Remote sensing data are vital components of
any investigation into global change but it is typically utilized in
conjunction with other sources of data that may be from a variety of sensing
devices, some instrumented and some human provided. Research endeavors into global climate change
have some similarities with studying other large complex events or systems in
terms of needing to look at relationships, correlations and ‘connecting the
dots’ in many different data sources to attempt to better model or understand
patterns, trends, and other phenomena.
This talk will provide some examples of the application of data mining
and other techniques to the problems of integrating and fusing data.