University of Minnesota

Founded in 1851 as a public land-grant university, the University of Minnesota is one of the largest universities in the United States with more than 66,000 students and some 4,000 full-time faculty. It is a world-class academic institution with strong research programs in computer science and environmental informatics, and the computer science and engineering department is home to one of the largest and most prominent data mining research groups at any academic institution. In particular, researchers at the University of Minnesota have been involved in pioneering work to overcome the challenges of global land use change detection using remotely sensed images. They have developed powerful data mining techniques that can handle massive global data and present a comprehensive picture of the changes in the global ecosystem.