Clustering Moving Object Trajectories: Integration in CROSS-CPP Analytic Toolbox

Mobile devices equipped with sensors are generating an amount of geo-spatial related data that, properly analyzed can be used for future applications. In particular, being able to establish similar trajectories is crucial to analyze events on common points in the trajectories. CROSS-CPP is a European project whose main aim is to provide tools to store data in a data market and to have a toolbox to analyze the data. As part of these analytic tools, a set of functionalities has been developed to cluster trajectories. Based on previous work on clustering algorithms we present in this paper a Quickbundels algorithm adaptation to trajectory clustering . Experiments using different distance measures show that Quickbundles outperforms spectral clustering, with the WS84 geodesic distance being the one that provides the best results.

Mining Partners in Trajectories

Spatiotemporal data is everywhere, being gathered from different devices such as Earth Observation and GPS satellites, sensor networks and mobile gadgets. Spatiotemporal data collected from moving objects is of particular interest for a broad range of applications. In the last years, such applications have motivated many pieces of research on moving object trajectory data mining. In this article, it is proposed an efficient method to discover partners in moving object trajectories. Such a method identifies pairs of trajectories whose objects stay together during certain periods, based on distance time series analysis. It presents two case studies using the proposed algorithm. This article also describes an R package, called TrajDataMining, that contains algorithms for trajectory data preparation, such as filtering, compressing and clustering, as well as the proposed method Partner.