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Chapter One
Introduction: What is a
Self-Organizing Map?
Andre Skupin and Pragya Agarwal
Department of Georgraphy, San Diego State University, San Diego,
CA 92182-4493, USA
Department of Geomatic Engineering, University College London,
London WC1E6BT, UK
1.1 INTRODUCTION
In the quest to understand and address important issues of the modern era, from environmental
degradation to economic development, enormous amounts of geographic data are
being generated. With the increasing adoption of such technologies as hyper-spectral
remote sensing or wireless sensor networks, the growth rate of data volumes continues to
rise. Granularity of geographic data is increasing both in geometric space (i.e. more
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