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Date of Conference: July 20-23 2010.
Location: University of Leicester
The symposium will be held at the University of Leicester's conference site located in a green, leafy suburb of Leicester about 4 km from the city centre, and set within landscaped, attractive gardens. John Foster Conference Suite comprises newly built (2006) en-suite accommodation (574 rooms), tailored meeting rooms, social spaces, exhibition space and wireless networks. A 300 seat lecture theatre is located in the adjoining Gilbert Murray Hall.
Key dates:
- Abstract submission: 28.09.09
- Abstract acceptance notification: 1.11.09
- Workshop proposals: 19.10.09
- Workshop acceptance notification: 1.11.09
- Short paper submission: 1.02.10
Other dates with respect to conference registration, workshop participation etc will appear here in due course.
Topics:
All topics concerned with spatial accuracy in a natural resources and environmental sciences context are appropriate, for example:
- Semantic uncertainty and vagueness
- Modelling uncertainty using geostatistics
- Propagation of uncertainty in GIS
- Visualizing spatial uncertainty
- Uncertainty in Remote Sensing
- Spatiotemporal uncertainty
- Accuracy and uncertainty of DEMs
- Modelling scale in environmental systems
- Positional uncertainty
Submissions:
We welcome the submission of both oral papers and posters.
Oral Papers: Authors are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 500 words in English on original research for international peer review. Those accepted will be published as short papers in the symposium proceedings (ISBN listed) and presented as oral papers at the symposium. Accepted authors will also be invited to submit a full paper for consideration towards an edited book planned as part of Springer's Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography series and possibly an international journal. Papers submitted for publication in proceedings or book should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Posters: Authors are invited to submit short abstracts of no more than 500 words, and if accepted these will be presented at the symposium. Those accepted for poster presentation will have the option of producing a short paper for the symposium proceedings (ISBN listed). Accepted authors will also be invited to submit a full paper for consideration towards an edited book planned as part of Springer's Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography series and possibly an international journal. Papers submitted for publication in proceedings or book should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All submissions will be online and at least one author will be required to register/attend the symposium. Details for the submission and guidelines for the format of papers and posters can be found elsewhere on the conference website.
Programme:
The programme for Accuracy2010 is not yet available for viewing, however more information on both the academic and social programme will be found by following the appropriate items in the menu
Workshops for the symposium will take place on Tuesday July 20th 2010. The symposium will open on the evening of Tuesday July 20th 2010, and will close at 1pm Friday 23rd July.
Conference organizers:
Mailing address: Accuracy2010,
Department of Geography, University of Leicester,
Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
Contact: dr. Nicolas Tate
Email: njt9@le.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)116 223 1320
Local Organising Committee
- Nicholas Tate (University of Leicester) Chair
- Heiko Balzter (University of Leicester)
- Chris Brunsdon (University of Leicester)
- Lex Comber (University of Leicester)
- Peter Fisher (University of Leicester) Co-chair
- Giles Foody (University of Nottingham)
- Claire Jarvis (University of Leicester)
- Kevin Tansey (University of Leicester)
International Steering Committee
- Ron McRoberts (USDA Forest Service, US) Chair
- Mario Caetano (Portuguese Geographic Institute, PT)
- Linda Lilburne (Landcare Research, NZ)
- Kim Lowell (University of Melbourne, AUS)
- Jingxiong Zhang (Wuhan University, CH)
Programme Committee
- Peter Atkinson (University of Southampton UK) co-chair
- Giles Foody (University of Nottingham, UK) co-chair
- Lucy Bastin (University of Aston, UK)
- Allan Brimicombe (University of East London, UK)
- Mario Caetano (Portuguese Geographic Institute, PT)
- Frank Canters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)
- Russell Congalton (University of New Hampshire, US)
- Ray Czaplewski (USDA Forest Service, US)
- Stewart Fotheringham (NUI Maynooth, IE)
- Michael Goodchild (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
- Dan Griffiths (University Texas Dallas, US)
- Gerard Heuvelink (Wageningen University, NL)
- Phaedon Kyriakidis (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
- Stamatis Kalogirou (Harokopio University of Athens, GR)
- Richard Kelly (University of Waterloo, CAN)
- Brian Lees (The University of New South Wales, AUS)
- Murray Lark (Rothamsted Research, UK)
- Linda Lilburne (Landcare Research, NZ)
- Chris Lloyd (Queen's University of Belfast, UK)
- Kim Lowell (University of Melbourne, AUS)
- Jennifer McKinley (Queen's University of Belfast, UK)
- Ron McRoberts (USDA Forest Service, US)
- Edzer Pebesma (University of Münster, DE)
- R. Gil Pontius (Clark University, US)
- Andrew Skidmore (ITC, NL)
- Amilcar Soares (Technical University of Lisbon, PT)
- Steve Stehman (State University of New York, US)
- Alfred Stein (ITC, NL)
- Enki Yoo (University at Buffalo SUNY, US)
- Linda Young (University of Florida, US)
- Jingxiong Zhang (Wuhan University, CH)
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