Image information mining: exploration of image content in large archives

We present an intelligent satellite information mining system, a next generation architecture to help a user to rapidly gather information about courses of action, a tool to add value and to manage the huge amounts of historical and newly acquired satellite data-sets by giving to experts access to relevant information in an understandable and directly usable form and to provide friendly interfaces for information query and browsing. In a remote sensing image archive the data access by geographical position, time of acquisition or type of sensor is often less important than what is the content of the scene, i.e. structures, objects, scattering properties. Interesting applications involve complicated spatial and structural relationships among image objects.