Mining Relevant and Extreme Patterns on Climate Time Series with CLIPSMiner

Authors

  • Luciana A. S. Romani ICMC - USP at São Carlos
  • Ana Maria H. Ávila Cepagri - Unicamp
  • Jurandir Zullo Jr. Cepagri - Unicamp
  • Caetano Traina Jr. ICMC - USP at São Carlos
  • Agma J. M. Traina ICMC - USP at São Carlos

Abstract

One of the most important challenges for the researchers in the 21st Century is related to global heating and climate change that can have as consequence the intensi?cation of natural hazards. Another problem of changes in the Earth's climate is its impact in the agriculture production. In this scenario, application of statistical models as well as development of new methods become very important to aid in the analyses of climate from ground-based stations and outputs of forecasting models. Additionally, remote sensing images have been used to improve the monitoring of crop yields. In this context we propose a new technique to identify extreme values in climate time series and to correlate climate and remote sensing data in order to improve agricultural monitoring. Accordingly, this paper presents a new unsupervised algorithm, called CLIPSMiner (CLImate PatternS Miner) that works on multiple time series of
continuous data, identifying relevant patterns or extreme ones according to a relevance factor, which can be tuned by the user. Results show that CLIPSMiner detects, as expected, patterns that are known in climatology, indicating the correctness and feasibility of the proposed algorithm. Moreover, patterns detected using the highest relevance factor is coincident with extreme phenomena. Furthermore, series correlations detected by the algorithm show a relation between agroclimatic and vegetation indices, which con?rms the agrometeorologists' expectations.

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Author Biographies

Luciana A. S. Romani, ICMC - USP at São Carlos

Phd candidate at ICMC - USP and researcher at Embrapa.

Ana Maria H. Ávila, Cepagri - Unicamp

researcher at Cepagri

Jurandir Zullo Jr., Cepagri - Unicamp

researcher at Cepagri

Caetano Traina Jr., ICMC - USP at São Carlos

professor at ICMC - USP (São Carlos)

Agma J. M. Traina, ICMC - USP at São Carlos

professor at ICMC - USP (São Carlos)

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Published

2010-09-09