For example, the user looks for similar patterns containing mixed crops/pasture and water
classes, and sets the maximum number of patterns returned equals to sixteen as shown in Fig. 12
(a). The retrieved patterns are shown Fig. 12 (b), in which the patterns are ranked according to
their distance measures. The content-based mining process therefore answers the question like
“Find all regions similar to this query region that has agricultural lands around a river.” Fig. 13
(a) and (b) show query pattern of crops/grasslands and corresponding results