A novel method to integrate spatial data mining and geographic information system

GIS is a good spatial analysis tool, nevertheless, as the accumulation of spatial data, the functions that GIS offers are not enough. Spatial data mining, which can automatically discover implicit knowledge from spatial data, has recently received wide attention. However, the spatial data mining systems are not competent for preprocessing and presenting spatial data. Hence, the idea to integrate spatial data mining and GIS is straightforward. In this paper, we propose a novel method to integrate spatial data mining and GIS. This method is implemented with SPMML, an XML-based language that is extended from PMML. We build a prototype system with this method and it works well.