In the era of big data, a significant volume of spatiotemporal data exists in a multiscale format, describing diverse phenomena in the objective world across different spatial and temporal scales. While existing methods focus on analyzing the features and connections of spatiotemporal data at various scales, they often overlook the consideration of uncertainty in spatiotemporal information within the context of multiscale meaning. To effectively harness the potential of spatiotemporal data, it becomes crucial to capture the fuzzy spatiotemporal information inherent in multiscale datasets. This paper proposes a novel multiscale spatiotemporal correlation method that accounts for and quantifies the uncertainty of spatiotemporal information. Spatiotemporal information is categorized into two types, explicit information and implicit information, based on respective levels of uncertainty. The method employs spatiotemporal cubes to interpret the spatiotemporal items within the data, followed by the introduction of a benchmark scale to determine the certainty of each spatiotemporal item based on its range and topological relationships. Subsequently, spatiotemporal confidence and correlation index are proposed to gauge the significance of geographical elements and their interrelationships. To validate the proposed method, a multiscale spatiotemporal transaction dataset is generated and utilized in the experiment. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively captures spatiotemporal implicit information and enables better utilization of multiscale spatiotemporal data. Notably, the importance of each object of study varies when analyzed using different benchmark scales, providing valuable insights for professionals to identify novel objects and associations worthy of consideration. The obtained results can be used to construct spatiotemporal knowledge graphs.

To understand the complex phenomena in social space and monitor the dynamic changes in people’s tracks, we need more cross-scale data. However, when we retrieve data, we often ignore the impact of multi-scale, resulting in incomplete results. To solve this problem, we proposed a management method of multi-granularity dimensions for spatiotemporal data. This method systematically described dimension granularity and the fuzzy caused by dimension granularity, and used multi-scale integer coding technology to organize and manage multi-granularity dimensions, and realized the integrity of the data query results according to the correlation between the different scale codes. We simulated the time and band data for the experiment. The experimental results showed that: (1) this method effectively solves the problem of incomplete query results of the intersection query method. (2) Compared with traditional string encoding, the query efficiency of multiscale integer encoding is twice as high. (3) The proportion of different dimension granularity has an impact on the query effect of multi-scale integer coding. When the proportion of fine-grained data is high, the advantage of multi-scale integer coding is greater.