The need to include auxiliary data in the process of interpreting remotely sensed data has long
been acknowledged by the remote sensing community. However, dealing with different types of
data and incorporating them into an information mining process remain a very difficult problem.
The system extensibility will consider geographical information system (GIS) connectivity that
can help efficiently access auxiliary data in vector format such as soil map, hydrologic map, etc,
which will support in-depth data fusion. Consequently, the information derived from image
information mining system can be used to correct, update, and maintain cartographic databases
within GIS.