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In addition to simple and local alerts about occurring changes over time at a given location, as is the case in Sensor Event Service (SES), the decision-making process may require more global spatial information, such as knowing if the monitored phenomenon is expanding or contracting around a given spot or if it is moving from one spot to another, especially for non-punctual spatial features. For such cases, spatiotemporal information should be computed over the whole set of distributed data from which the geometry of monitored phenomena can be assessed. This paper proposes an event-driven fuzzy rule-based decentralized spatial reasoning approach to compute spatiotemporal changes occurring in vague shape phenomena from distributed sensor data streams. Inferring local and partial spatial changes from individual nodes over the sensor network is prior to the computation of developing changes that the monitored phenomenon undergoes over the whole area covered by the sensor network. In this approach, we suggest a Fuzzy-Extended Spatiotemporal Change Pattern (FESTCP) to compute spatiotemporal changes about fuzzy regions. To evaluate our method, simulated case studies of ambient air pollution in Quebec City are carried out. 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