Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences Edited by: Nicholas J Tate, Peter F Fisher

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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• A New Look at Semantic Accuracy
• Statistical Inference and Local Spatial Modelling
• Spatial uncertainty and Hypothesis Testing in Medical Geography: a Geostatistical Perspective
• The Effect of Map Accuracy on Estimates of Terrestrial Carbon Budgets
• Uncertainty in Image Interpretation as Reference for Accuracy Assessment in Object-based Image Analysis
• Overall Accuracy Estimation for Geographic Object-based Image Classification
• Random and Spatially Autocorrelated Sensor Noise Effects on Image Classification
• Incorporating Uncertainty in the Accuracy Assessment of Land Cover Maps Using Fuzzy Numbers and Fuzzy Arithmetic
• Detecting Land Cover Change When the Cover Classes are Modelled as type 2 Fuzzy Sets
• Study of Spatial fusion of Geographical Entities and Quantitative Information in Accordance with Their Imprecision
• Error Propagation in Space-time Prisms
• Analysing the Precision of resource Aware Localisation Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Using Signal Propagation Models to Improve Distance Estimations for Localisation in Wireless Geosensor Networks
• Geostatistical Modeling Using Non-gaussian Copulas
• Geostatistical Tools for National-scale Soil Monitoring
• Downscaling the Character of Spatial Variation
• Uncertainty in the Estimation of Drought Risk due to Soil-climate Interactions in Scotland
• On the Reproducibility of Reflectance Factors: Implications for EO Science
• Sources of Uncertainty in Predicting Land Surface Fluxes Using Diverse Data and Models
• Challenges Associated with Integrating Data from Multiple Scales to Assess Relationships
• An ID3-improved Approach of for Optimum Rule Mining Through Granular Computing Search
• Latin Hypercube Sampling of Gaussian Random field for Sobol’s Global Senitivity Analysis of Models with Spatial Inputs and Scalar Outputs
• Accounting for Spatial Sampling Effects in Regional Uncertainty Propagation Analysis
• Error Propagation in the Fusion of Multi-source and Multi-scale Spatial Information
• Uncertainty Assessment for Soil Remediation Projects
• Uncertainty Assessment of Land Use/cover Maps: User Beware!
• Time Dependent Variance-based Sensitivity Analysis of Development Aggregation Generated by Heterogeneous Land Use Agents
• Impacts of Error on the Predicted Pattern of Change in a Post-Classification Change Analysis
• Using Geographically Weighted Regression for Analysing Elevation Error of High-resolution DEMS
• Increasing the Accuracy of Digital Elevation Models by Means of Geostatistical Conflation
• Assessing the Spatial Characteristics of DEM Interpolation Error
• Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data into Land-surface Models: the Importance of Uncertainty
• Web-based Assessment of Operator Performance and Variability in Remote Sensing Image Analysis
• Raster Data Transformation for Land change Analyses
• Uncertainty Quantification with Support Vector Regression Prediction Models
• Locally Accurate Prediction Standard Errors with Spatially Varying Regression coefficient Models
• IDW Implementation in Map Calculus and Commercial GIS Products
• Hydrological Model Hypothesis Testing Using Imprecise Spatial Flux Measurements
• The Quantification and Effect of Data Accuracy on Spatial Configuration and Composition Measurements of Landscape Pattern in Ecology
• Uncertainties of Cultivated Landscape drainage Network Mapping and its Consequences on Hydrological Fluxes Estimations
• Assigning Confidence Limits to Outputs from a Nitrate Leaching Model: A Case Study from the River Ure Catchment, UK
• Visual Analysis of Sensitivity in CAT Models: Interactive Visualisation for CAT Model Sensitivity Analysis
• DEMView: 3-D Visualization of DEM Error
• Visualizing Uncertainty in Spatio-temporal Data
• Accuracy Assessment with Complex Sampling Designs
• Sampling for Validation of Ecotope Maps of Floodplains in the Netherlands
• Conservative Updating of Sampling Designs
• Designing a Reference Validation Database for Accuracy Assessment of Land Cover
• Scale, Resolution and Missing Data in a Long Term Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Study
• Joint Space-time Modeling of West Nile Virus Vector Mosquito Abundance
• Adjusting for Measurement Lag in the Estimation of Rapid Marine Tidal Current Flow with Sparse Spatiotemporal Boat Survey Data
• Non-stationary Modelling and Simulation of LIDAR DEM Uncertainty
• Sensitivity of Quasi-Dynamic Topographic Wetness Index to Choice of DEM Resolution, Flow Routing Algorithm, and Soil Variability
• Uncertainty in the Extracted Drainage Network Associated to the Applied DEM Correction Method: Implementation of a new DEW Correction Approach
• Multi-scale Analysis on NDVI and Topographical Factors of Wuyi Mountain Reserve Area Using Wavelet Method
• Discriminant Models for Uncertainty Characterization in Remotely Sensed Land Cover
• Second-phase Spatial Sampling: Local and Global Objectives to Optimize Sampling Patterns
• Managing Uncertainty in Complex Geospatial Models
• Geostatistical Analysis of Multiple Correlated Variables from Salt Weathering Simulations
• Countering New Challenges Regarding Classification Quality Assessment Methods with the Help of Fuzzy Boundaries
• A Sketch-based Language for Representing Uncertainty in the Locations of Origin of Herbarium Specimens
• Positional and Thematic Tolerance Operators for the Intercomparable Accuracy Measures of Land Use/Land Cover Base-maps
• Land Suitability Analysis Comparing Boolean Logic with Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process
• Quality Evaluation of DEMs
• A New Method for Checking the Planimetric Accuracy of Digital Elevation Models Data Derived by Airborne Laser Scanning
• Land-cover class as a Qualifier for Quoted Elevation Error in Aerial LiDAR
• Improving Image classification Accuracy: a Method to Incorporate Uncertainty in the Selection of Training Sample Set
• Spatial Entropy for the Measurement of the Spatial Accuracy of Classified Remote Sensing Imagery
• Object-oriented Remote Sensed Image Classification Accuracy Assessment
• Significance Analysis of Multi-temporal RapidEye Satellite Images in a Land-cover Classification
• Statistical Mapping of air Quality by Remote Sensing
• Uncertainty in Determining the Extension of Anomalous Zones of Spatial Environmental Variables
• Uncertainty in Demographic Small Area Estimates
• Analyzing Small Geographic Area Datasets Containing Values Having High Levels of Uncertainty
• Geostatistical regression for Areal Data
• A Comparison of Text Mining and Semantic Approaches for integrating national and Local Habitat Data
• A High Accuracy and High Speed Method and its Application to Ecological Modelling
• Clustering Detection for Amazonia Deforestation Using Spatio-temporal: Scan Statistics
• Data Quality and the Detection of Woody Vegetation
• A Dynamic Web-based Data Model for Representing Geographic Points with Uncertain Locations
• Assessing the Accuracy of ‘Crowdsourced’ Data and its Integration with Official Spatial Data sets
• Handling and communicating Uncertainty in chained Geospatial Web Services
• Accuracy-aware Web-based Geoprocessing Chains
• Toward Quantitative Geocode Accuracy Metrics
• Using Sound to Represent Positional Accuracy of Address Locations
• Comparison of the Accuracy of OpenStreetMap for Ireland with Google Maps and Bing Maps
• Improvement of the Accuracy on Image Classification Process through Incorporation of contextual Information
• Extracting Spatial Decision Rules Using Rough Fuzzy Sets
• Application of Hyperspectral Remotely sensed Data for Water Quality Monitoring: Accuracy and Limitation
• Identification of Optimal Spatial Resolution with Local Variance, Semivariogram and Wavelet Method – Case Studying Typical Landscape of Mountainous Area in Southeast China
• Analysis of Spatial Autocorrelation for Point Objects based on Line Buffer
• Identifying Fuzzy Land Use from Network and graph Theoretical Approaches
• Uncertainty in Habitat Quality Maps for Elk: Implications for Estimates of Carrying Capacity
• Digital Chart Error Theory and Quality Assessment
• Estimation of Digitizing and Polygonal Approximation Errors in the Computation of Length in Vector Databases
• A Geo-Spatial Site characterization Framework for Determining Optimal Offshore Locations of Hydrokineti Tidal Energy Devices in the Pentland Firth
• Air Quality Mapping: Combining Models, In Situ Measurements and Remote Sensing
• Accuracy of Built-up Area Mapping in Europe at Varying Scales and Thresholds
• Accuracy Sampling design Bias on Coarse Spatial Resolution Land Cover Data in the Great Lakes Region (United States and Canada)
• A Comparison of Indicator and Poisson Kriging of Herbivore Species Abundance in Kruger National Park, South Africa
• Satellite Precipitation Assessments for Flash Flood Events in Turkey
• Accuracy Assessment for Boolean and Fuzzy Classificaiton in Tripoli, Libya
• An Analysis of Propagate Uncertainties in Ecological Niche Spatial Modelling
• Positional Error Propagation Analysis in Habitat Distribution Modelling
• An Accuracy Assessment of Spaceborne X-band (TerraSAR-X) Spotlight Mode InSAR DEMs
• Modelling Uncertainty in Watershed Divides from SRTM and GDEM
• Comparison of Three Spatial Sensitivity Analsis Techniques
• Transgression of Semantic Boundaries by Methodical Terminology Management: Applicaion to the Terminology and Metrology of Satellite Based Localisation Systems
• Handling Positional Uncertainty in a Real-time Bus Tracking System
• Identification of Priority Zones for Conservation Considering Water Resources in the Alto Paraguai Watershed Region