Research on application of clustering algorithm in detection of ancient river

Since ancient ritual is usually near the water, so, there are large quantities of precious cultural relic buried ancient river. Search for ancient river has a great significance in the archaeological exploration. Traditional methods of the search ancient river entirely by manual interpretation. Interpretation by using a lot of consecutive geological cross-section diagram. The interpretation work need a professional knowledge and rich experience. Using of data mining and database technology can quickly identify the direction of ancient river. The paper based on the physical differences between the ancient river geological characteristics, propose using K-means algorithm to quickly identify the direction of ancient river. The clustering results according with the experts explain and match the actual excavation. The efficiency of the identification has been improved significantly. Data mining techniques applied to archaeological exploration geophysical data processing is the future of intelligent data-processing development trend.