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Data Mining & Knowledge Management: Data CompressionMachine Learning: Feature Construction/ReformulationKnowledge Representation and Reasoning: Geometric, Spatial, and Temporal Reasoning
Beyond Standard Datacubes: Extracting Features from Irregular and Branching Earth System Data
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Traditional data cubes struggle to efficiently represent the irregular, sparse, or branching data structures commonly encountered in Earth system science. This work proposes a generalized hypercube representation based on compressed tree structures, integrated with the Polytope framework to enable sub-field-level feature extraction and user-driven fine-grained data access. By unifying tree-based organization with feature-oriented operations, the approach effectively captures conditional dependencies, sparsity patterns, and branching dimensions that defy conventional orthogonal representations. Coupled with a cache-aware indexing mechanism, the method significantly enhances indexing efficiency and feature retrieval capabilities for large-scale, heterogeneous Earth science datasets, thereby overcoming fundamental limitations of classical data cube models.
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📝 Abstract
Earth science datasets are growing rapidly in both volume and structural complexity. They increasingly contain richly labelled data with heterogeneous metadata and complex internal constraints that impose dependencies between variables and dimensions. Datacubes have become a common abstraction for organising such datasets, but traditional dense and orthogonal datacube models struggle to represent irregular, sparse or branching data spaces efficiently. In this paper, we introduce a generalised data hypercube representation based on compressed tree structures, which enables an accurate and compact description of complex data spaces. We describe the design of this representation and analyse its ability to capture sparsity and conditional relationships while remaining efficient to traverse. Using a concrete implementation, we study the performance characteristics of compressed tree data hypercubes and demonstrate their effectiveness as fast, cache-like indices over large backend data stores. Building on this representation, we present an integrated feature extraction system that operates directly on tree-based data hypercubes within the Polytope framework. By embedding data access strategies into the data hypercube abstraction itself, the system enables precise, sub-field data extraction and supports flexible, user-driven access patterns. We evaluate the performance of the integrated system and show how it enables new ways of interacting with complex datasets that are difficult to support using traditional access models. This work bridges the gap between expressive data hypercube models and efficient data access methods. In particular, it provides a unified framework that combines tree-based data representations with feature extraction capabilities. The proposed approach therefore offers a foundation for scalable and user-centric access to large heterogeneous Earth science datasets.
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datacubes
irregular data
branching data
Earth system data
feature extraction
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Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
compressed tree data hypercubes
irregular data representation
feature extraction
conditional relationships
user-driven data access
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