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The Accuracy 2002 Symposium, 10-12 July 2002, has now concluded.  Details are provided below for purchase of the symposium proceedings.
 

Contents of the Symposium Proceedings

Full Papers

• Keynote Address:  “Accuracy, Uncertainty and a Coherent Philosophy for Environmental Modelling”, Professor Keith Beven, Lancaster University (UK)

• “Geoexistentialism: the nature of uncertainty, the nature of ‘reality’”, Ian Greatbatch and Daryl Lloyd (UK)
• “Nationwide assessments of non-point source pollution with field-scale developed models: the pesticides case”, Aaldrik Tiktak, Jos Boesten and Ton van der Linden (The Netherlands)
• “Risk assessment and uncertainty in mapped and modelled distributions of threatened species in Australia”, Arthur D. Chapman (Australia)
• “Quantifying the Impacts of Spatial Data Accuracy on Decision Making: Wildfire Threat Models”, S.D. Jones, M. Garvey and G.J. Hunter (Australia)

• “Evaluation of Geocover LCTM accuracy for Army environmental applications”, Louis A. Fatale, Frederick L. Speir, Kevin Williams, Holly Zanoni (USA)
• “The Production of Uncertainty in Spatial Information: The Case of Land Cover Mapping”, Peter Fisher, Lex Comber and Richard Wadsworth (UK)
• “Estimation of land-cover class proportions at the subpixel level from 1-km SPOT-VGT data”, Frank Canters, Else Swinnen, Herman Eerens,Tim Van de Voorde (Belgium)

• "Linear first order estimate of the spatially distributed prediction accuracy of  groundwater models: a practical example”, A. Leijnse, M.H.J. Pastoors and A. Tiktak (The Netherlands)
• “Regional validation of a nationwide application of a comprehensive 1-D hydrological model”, Kroes, J.G., P.J.T. van Bakel, J. Huygen, T. Kroon, H.Th.L.Massop, R. Pastoors (The Netherlands)
• “Quality assurance of  a multi-criteria model for evaluation of in situ soil sanitation techniques, an integration of developer’s - and user’s accuracy ”, Marien de Bakker, Jan Erik van Deijne, Hans Bargerbos, Adri Nipshagen, Sytze Keuning, Marc van Bemmel and Reinout Schoonbeek (The Netherlands)

• “The GLOBE Program: A Potential Source of Land Cover Reference Data”, Russell G. Congalton (USA)
• “Accuracy assessment of an integrated spatial database: Slices land-use classification”, O.A. Jaakkola, V. Helminen and A. Mikkola (Finland)

• “A compound, precision oriented, relative accuracy index for the comparison of raster data and minimalisation of computing cost”, Grant Jacquier and Dr Joseph Leach (Australia)
• “Can we construct error buttons for every application?” Charles R. Ehlschlaeger (USA)

“Decision analytical assessment of the fitness of uncertain spatial data”, Sytze de Bruin and Arnold Bregt (The Netherlands)

• “Fuzziness in Multi-Scale Fuzzy Assignment of Duneness”, Tao Cheng, Peter Fisher and Peter Rogers (UK)
• “Quality Assessment of Attribute Data for Digital Maps Based on the Statistical Rate of Disfigurement Method”, Chun Liu, Wenzhong Shi and Dajie Liu (China)
• “Is the ordinary kriging variance a proper measure of interpolation error?”, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink and Edzer J. Pebesma (The Netherlands)

• “Progress on assessing the accuracy of a high-resolution Digital Elevation Model for New Zealand”, James Barringer, Stephen McNeill and David Pairman (New Zealand)
• “Advances in the estimation of the uncertainty in Digital Terrain Models”, Aad Fioole (The Netherlands)
• “Evaluation on the Accuracy of Hydrologic Data Derived From DEMs of Different Spatial Resolution”, Guoan Tang, Wenzhong Shi, Mudan Zhao (China)

• “Assessing the positional accuracy of remotely sensed products”, C. A. O. Vieira (Brazil), P. M. Mather (UK) and P.A.F. Borges (Brazil)
• “Components of Error of Maps from Remotely Sensed Images”, Keith Rennolls (UK)
• “Reducing uncertainties in natural resources mapping using remote sensing and GPS techniques”, Amanda Waltham, Neil  Stuart, Duncan Moss and Chris Place (UK)

• Keynote Address:  “Living with uncertainty: GIS and the limits of geographic knowledge”, Professor Helen Couclelis, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)

• “Examining Uncertainty in the Definition and Meaning of Geographical Categories“, Mark Gahegan, Boyan Brodaric (USA)
• “Pixel and colour mixture: GIS techniques for visualisation of fuzziness and uncertainty of natural resource inventories”, Tomislav Hengl, Dennis J.J. Walvoort, Allan Brown (The Netherlands)
• “Communicating spatial uncertainty in relation to the generalization of classified remotely sensed imagery”, Blair Darragh, Rod Allan (Australia)
• “Managing Spatial Data Quality Information Based on XML”, Ying He, Ewan Masters and Gary J. Hunter (Australia)

• “Accurate mapping of marine park boundaries: the geodesic problem”, Adam Lewis (Australia)
• “Using Sample Ground Truth to Estimate the Accuracy of Thematic Maps Derived from Remotely Sensed Data”, Seyed Rashid Fallah Shamsi (Iran)
• “Resolving the support when combining remotely sensed and field data: the case of atmospheric correction of airborne remotely sensed imagery using the empirical line method”, Nick Hamm, Peter Atkinson and Ted Milton (UK)
• “Quantifying certainty in Australia-wide soil property predictions generated with decision trees”, B. L. Henderson, C. J. Moran and E. N. Bui (Australia)

• “Interactive visualization of a fuzzy classification of remotely sensed imagery using dynamically linked views to explore uncertainty”, Arko Lucieer and Menno-Jan Kraak (The Netherlands)
• “Evaluating visualizations of spatial error: a taxonomic approach”, Claire H. Jarvis (UK)
• “Improvement of Data Quality Information Presentation Through the Internet”, Ting Yang and Ewan Masters (Australia)

• “Quality assessment of generalized geographical data”, Sylvain Bard (France)
• “Quality Controls for Development of a Land and Housing Fundamental GIS Database”, Xiaohua  Tong, Dajie  Liu, Daosheng Du (China)
• “A simulation-based approach to measure uncertainty of line simplification in GIS”, Chui Kwan Cheung and Wenzhong Shi (Hong Kong, China)
• “Estimating the average number of errors to evaluate the quality of a spatial database from a data conversion process”, José Alberto Quintanilha and Linda Lee Ho (Brazil)

• “Quantifying map confusion due to uncertainty”, Linda Lilburne and Heather North (New Zealand)
• “McNemar’s test for comparing the accuracy of Categorical maps”, Jan de Leeuw, Karin Schmidt and Andrew K. Skidmore (The Netherlands)
• “Towards an area-based method for evaluating digital image classification accuracy with emphasis on landcover change”, Kim Lowell (Canada)
• "Geostatistics Applied to Spatial Data Generated with Non-Stationary Models”, P. M. Atkinson (UK) and F. Csillag (Canada)

• “Uncertainty of point measurement in regional estimation of forest biomass as compared with line estimates with airborne laser altimetry”, Tsuzuki, H., Kusakabe, T. and Sweda, T. (Japan)
• “How Accurately can Remotely Sensed data detect Tropical Deforestation?”, Yousif Ali Hussin and Michael Weir (The Netherlands)
• “Using maps to increase the precision of forest inventory estimates”, Ronald E. McRoberts (USA)
• “Simulating spatial errors for forest growth models”, Julian C. Fox (Australia)

• “Mapping and monitoring dryland salinity using a time series of satellite images and other spatial data sets”, Dr Harri Kiiveri, CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences (Australia)

• “Geometric variability of raster cell class assignment”, Ashton M. Shortridge (USA)
• “Optimizing sampling plans to map pollution with irregular block kriging”, L.Hazelhoff and E.v.d. Laar (The Netherlands)
• “Accounting for Uncertainty in Spatial Allocation Modeling”, Jeroen C.J.H.Aerts and Gerard B.M. Heuvelink (The Netherlands)
• “Combining AI models in dealing with input errors”, Zhi Huang and Brian Lees (Australia)

• “Spatial statistical evaluation of a forestry suitability index: assessing uncertainty in spatial decision making”, Daniel A. Griffith, Susanna McMaster (USA)
• “The uncertainty of forest stratification”, K.J. Catchpoole, I.S. Ferguson, L.J. Bren (Australia)
• “Modeling attribute uncertainty in a categorical vegetation map”, William De Genst, Sophie Vermeersch and Frank Canters (Belgium)

• “Characterizing 3-D positional uncertainty in digital terrain data”, Charles R. Ehlschlaeger and Ashton M. Shortridge (USA)
• “Model for data quality evaluation of basic topographic data sets – quality management, organizational and GI aspects”, Antti Jakobsson and Jorma Marttinen (Finland)
• “Interaction between two elements of spatial data quality”, P.A.J. van Oort (The Netherlands)
• “Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Precise Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR+95 & PLGR+96) Acc uracy”, Louis A. Fatale, D.C. Oimoen, J.R. Ackeret
• “High resolution Multi-spectral Digital Remote Sensing”, A. Roberts, P. Frazier and J. Northrup (Canada)
• “Simulating 3D Soil Profiles using Geostatistics”, Y.L. Kuo, M.B. Jaksa and W.S. Kaggwa (Australia)
• “Inherent Bias in Regional Estimate of Leaf Area Index Resulting from Simple Scaling-up of Spot Estimates”, Tomoko Kusakabe, Tsuzuki Hayato and Sweda Tatsuo (Japan)
• “Assessing the affect of uncertainty in spatially distributed friction coefficients on flood inundation modelling”, M.D. Wilson, P.M. Atkinson (UK)
• “A probabilistic approach to assess soil water content in a forestry area of south Italy”, A. Castrignanò, Buttafuoco G. (Italy)
• “Characterization of Vegetative Undergrowth from High-resolution Spaceborne Imagery”, Louis A. Fatale; Paul F. Kraus,  Harry Puffenberger and Danny C. Champion (USA)
• "Developing Ontologies of Spatial Data Quality Semantics: Assisting Users to Improve Web-based Spatial Data Transactions", Emmanuel Shyllon (Nigeria) and Gary Hunter (Australia)
• “Estimating boreal forest biomass using tree attribute equations with a canopy-soil reflectance model applied to Landsat-TM”, C.-H. Ung, F. Raulier, and M.-C. Lambert (Canada)
• “The Effect Errors in Gridded Digital Elevation have on Derived Topographic Parameters Using Monte Carlo Simulation:  A Comparison of Algorithms”, L Raaflaub and M.J. Collins (Canada)
• “The Effect of Errors in Gridded Digital Elevation data on the Distributed Hydrological model TOPMODEL”, L Raaflaub, M.J. Collins, R. Quinonez-Pinon and C. Valeo (Canada)

Proceedings of the 5th Symposium (Melbourne, Australia, 2002)

The 5th Symposium proceedings consists of over 540 pages at a cost of AUD$60 (this price includes surface postage  - airmail costs are extra upon request).  The proceedings are available from either of the two universities listed below:
 

Proceedings of the 4th Symposium (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000)

The 4th Symposium proceedings consists of over 750 pages at a cost of 40 EURO.  They are published by Delft University Press (G.B.M. Heuvelink and M.J.P.MLemmens eds), and copies can be obtained using the downloadable Proceedings Order Form, or by emailing Gerard Heuvelink for further information at:  g.b.m.heuvelink@science.uva.nl

Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium (Quebec City, Canada, 1998)

The proceedings of the 3rd Symposium are published by Ann Arbor Press under the title "Spatial Accuracy Assessment: Land Information Uncertainty in Natural Resources" (eds. Kim Lowell and Annick Jaton). This volume contains all of the papers submitted and presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences held in May 1998 in Quebec City, Canada. This conference drew experts from around the world and the resulting volume truly addresses state-of-the-art techniques for spatial uncertainty science. Chapter headings include the effect of spatial uncertainty on decision-making, methods of characterising spatial uncertainty, representation and visualising spatial uncertainty, generalisation and aggregation issues, and the impact of spatial uncertainty on the analysis of satellite images. 450 pages, Hardcover, $69.95 US, ISBN 1-57504-119-7, contact Ann Arbor Press for more information (Fax: 1-734-475-8852 or e-mail: aap310@aol.com ).

Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium (Fort Collins, Colorado, 1996)

The following 728-page proceedings are available at no charge: Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences: Second International Symposium, May 21-23, 1996. H. Todd Mowrer, Raymond L. Czaplewski, and R.H. Hamre, Technical Coordinators. RM-GTR-277. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins. Request copies from: Publications Distribution (GTR277); USDA Forest Service; Rocky Mountain Research Station; 240 W. Prospect: Fort Collins, Colorado 80526-2098 USA; e-mail: rschneider/rmrs@fs.fed.us . Please reference RM-GTR-277 in the request, and present mailing address in a format that can be used as a mailing label. These Proceedings are in their second printing, with over 3000 copies in circulation. Selected papers from the proceedings of the second Symposium have recently been published in a revised and expanded form by Ann Arbor Press under the title "Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty in Natural Resources: Theory and Applications for GIS and Remote Sensing" (eds. H. Todd Mowrer and Russel G. Congalton). ISBN 1-57504-131-6.

Created: 8-Nov-2000, Last modified: 15-July-2002
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