CE 559 Watershed management and Remote Sensing Applications

Long-type Question Set-G

Data Mining: Concept and Techniques

Q1 Explain the concept of Entropy classification methods. For a river basin, Digital elevation

model of 10 m spatial resolution are available and 5000 village-scale social and economic

datasets are also available. Explain how to use Entropy Classifiers to cluster the villages into

12 unique topographic controlled social-economic groups.

Q2. Briefly outline the major steps of Artificial Neural Network. why is ANN useful in Land

use/land cover classification? What are drawbacks of using ANN as compared to Maximum

likelihood classifier?

Q3. A data warehouse can be modelled by either a star schema or a snowflake schema. Briefly

describe the similarities and the differences of the two models and then analyse their

advantages and disadvantages with regard to one another.

Q4. Write short notes on

a) Bitmap indexing

b) Min-Max normalisation