Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) and data mining have been a key challenge of a modern society. SDIs as well as spatial data mining should become a topic of the annual conference EnviroInfo. The main objectives of our paper are: (1) To provide a short overview about spatial data infrastructures (definitions, goals, hierarchy of SDIs, and relations to other initiatives). (2) To describe the t...

Today rapid development in Information Technology field and new applications being developed constantly to support critical businesses all over the world and also various key fields like environment studies, Medicine, Research and other sciences, making it an indispensable part of our lives. Computations across and over Internet has become order of day. Internet of things is an emerging topic o...

The abundant natural resources can bring either positive or negative impact to the country’s economy depending on the macroeconomic policies. Mongolia has massive mineral resource dominated by coal, copper, and gold. The Government of Mongolia has started to implement a number of infrastructure projects to decrease the mining project’s cost burden caused from the country’s weak infrastructure. ...

In this paper we present research in progress that has the aim of developing a set of data quality metrics for two aspects of the dimension of consistency, the semantic and representational aspects. In the literature metrics for these two aspects are relatively unexplored, especially in comparison with the data integrity aspect. Our goal is to apply these data quality metrics to interconnected ...

During the last decade or so, we have had a deluge of data from not only science fields but also industry and commerce fields. Although the amount of data available to us is constantly increasing, our ability to process it becomes more and more difficult. Efficient discovery of useful knowledge from these datasets is therefore becoming a challenge and a massive economic need. This led to the ne...

Fuel and leasable minerals mined in the United States have historically been subject to federal royalties while locatable minerals have not. In recent years there have been multiple attempts to alter this policy and subject locatable minerals to federal royalties as well; most recently the preliminary 2011 Obama budget included a gross royalty on hard-rock mining on public lands. This paper ana...

In open-pit mine planning, the design of the most profitable ultimate pit limit is a prerequisite to developing a feasible mining sequence. Currently, the design of an ultimate pit is achieved through a computer program in most mining companies. The extraction of minerals in open mining methods needs a lot of capital investment, which may take several decades. Before the extraction, the p...