Section: Software and Platforms

GeoImageRMP : a RapidMiner extension to georeferenced data

RapidMiner is one of the most used frontend for data mining, modelling and analysis. RapidMiner enables the user to design data processing tool chains interactively. A tool chain is a flow chart of processing tools represented by boxes in the interface. This software is easily extendable by designing Plugins. The GeoImageRMP plugin is a plugin dedicated to the design of tool chains to process georeferenced images (raster and vector images) [18] . It is a practical and useful respond to the analytic tasks of georeferenced data. This is the first plugin that is interested in including georeferenced data in RapidMiner and although the only user-friendly tool to create and compare geoereferenced data tool chains. It benefits from the large amount of data processing tools that are already implemented in RapidMiner (classification, clustering, frequent pattern mining, etc.). One of the main aims of this plugin is to quickly prototype machine learning tools chain for remote sensing classification task. The GeoImageRMP plugin provide several new processing boxes:

• georeferenced data import/export: create and export dataset that can be processed by standard RapidMiner tool box from/to standard geospatial format (GeoTiff, Shapefiles)

• geospatial sampling method: based on multi-heterogeneous layers of georeferenced data, the sampling method can be transets, random, equidistant, from punctual layer.

• georeferenced data transformation tools: a set of tools dedicated to the manipulation of our new data structures (coordinates, SRS, etc.)

• visualization tool

The following website is devoted to the presentation of GeoImageRMP : http://geoimagermp.gforge.inria.fr/ .