8th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Edited by J. Zhang and M. F.Goodchild

To order the printed hardcover proceedings, please contact the publisher World Academic Press at publishing@WAU.org.uk. A number of papers have been selected for publication in the International Journal of Remote Sensing special issue "uncertainty in remotely sensed information, spatial analysis, and process modeling".

ISBN: 1-84626-170-8

Symposium chairs:
Hon. Chairs: Jingnan Liu (Wuhan University, CN), Xiaowen Li (Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CN)
Chairs: Deren Li (Wuhan University, CN), Michael Goodchild (University of California, US)
Co-chairs: Jianya Gong (Wuhan University, CN), Chenghu Zhou (Institute of Geographical Science, CN)

Organizing Committee:
Jingxiong Zhang (Wuhan University, CN)
Secretary: Yong Ge (Wuhan University, CN)

Sponsors: Chinese Society for Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography, Specialty Committee on Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, China. The World Academic Union has funded the proceedings' publication.

• PLENARY LECTURES
• GEOSTATISTICS
• ERROR, INFORMATION, AND SPATIAL CORRELATION
• VAGUENESS AND UNCERTAINTY
• ERROR PROPAGATION
• UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION
• VALIDATION IN REMOTE SENSING
• UNCERTAINTY IN SPATIAL MODELLING
• SCALE
• DATA ASSIMILATION
• GEO-DATA AND ONTOLOGY
• POSITIONAL ACCURACY
• ACCURACY IN CLASSIFICATION
• ACCURACY IN DEMs
• POSTER SESSION

PLENARY LECTURES

• Uncertainty in Spatial Information, Analysis, and Applications: Chinese Perspectives
  
• Spatial Accuracy 2.0
  
• Geostatistics: What’s Hot, What’s Not, and Other Food for Thought
  
• Issues of Uncertainty in Super-Resolution Mapping and the Design of an Inter-Comparison Study
  
• Sustainability, Climate Change and Uncertainty
  
• Sampling Designs for Assessing Map Accuracy
  
• Handling Uncertainties in Image Mining for Remote Sensing Studies
  
• From Uncertainty Description to Spatial Data Quality Control

GEOSTATISTICS

• The Study on Trinary Join-Counts for Spatial Autocorrelation
• Combining Transition Probabilities in the Prediction and Simulation of Categorical Fields
• A Covariance Conversion Approach of Gamma Random Field Simulation
• Geostatistical Analysis of GPS Trajectory Data: Space-Time Densities
• Assessing Uncertainties for Lognormal Kriging Estimates
• Geostatistical Approaches to Conflation of Continental Snow Data
• Robust Interpolation of Agricultural Census Data to Hydrological Units and Implications for Diffuse Pollution Modelling
• Mining Spatial Association Rules with Geostatistics
• On Effects of Weights in Spatial Interpolation
• Properties and Applications of the Interpolation Variance Associated with Ordinary Kriging Estimates

ERROR, INFORMATION, AND SPATIAL CORRELATION

• Quantifying Degrees of Information in Remote Sensing Imagery
• Error Matching Detection and Robust Estimation Adjustment Approach for Map Conflation
• Multi-Level Measurements for Uncertainty in Classified Remotely Sensed Imagery
• Impacts of Noise on the Accuracy of Hyperspectral Image Classification by SVM

VAGUENESS AND UNCERTAINTY

• Irrigation Intensification or Extensification Assessment: A GIS-Based Spatial Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Evaluation
• Degree of Site Suitability Measurement in a GIS: The Effect of Various Standardization Methods
• A Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation Approach for Land Cover Cartography Accuracy Assessment
• Fuzzy Evaluation of Quality in DLGs, DRGs, DEMs, and DOMs

ERROR PROPAGATION

• Distributed Error Propagation Analysis for Automatic Drainage Basin Delineation
• Simulation Analysis of Error Propagation on Land Cover Change Maps: A Comparison of Contextual and Non-contextual Models
• Spatial Autocorrelation and Random Effects in Digitizing Error

UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION

• Visualizing Positional Uncertainties of Geometric Corrected Remote Sensing Images
• The YUE-HASM Method
• Visualising Uncertainty in Spatial Decision Support

VALIDATION IN REMOTE SENSING

• Forest Characteristics and Effects on LiDAR Waveforms Modeling and Simulation
• Corn 3D Reconstruction for Remote Sensing Validation
• Validation of AVHRR/ MODIS/ AMSR-E Satellite SST Products in the West Pacific

UNCERTAINTY IN SPATIAL MODELLING

• Revealing Long Term Land Use and Land Cover Change in a Severely Disturbed Environment
• Field-Scale Mapping of Soil Organic Carbon with Soil-Landscape Modeling
• Climate Change Impacts on Protea Species: PDEAR Model Predictions
• Validation of Spatial Prediction Models for Landslide Susceptibility Maps
• Spatial Uncertainty Assessment in the Reconstruction of Presettlement Forest Patterns in Western NY, USA
• Uncertainty Analysis of the GeoPEARL Pesticide Leaching Model

SCALE

• A Study on the LAI Up-Scaling Based on Mathematic Transformation
• Effects of Spatial Grain Size on Landscape Pattern of Qingpu District in Shanghai
• Scale Effects and Correction for Land Surface Albedo in Rugged Terrain
• A Scale Transform Method for Leaf Area Index Retrieved from Multi-Resolutions Remote Sensing Data
• A Method to Improve the Accuracy of Remote Sensing Data Classification by Exploiting the Multi-Scale Properties in the Scene
• Scale-Span Classification of Multispectral Images Based on Feature Construction and Decision Trees
• A Multi-Scale Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on the Cloud Model

DATA ASSIMILATION

• Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data Products into Common Land Model for Evapotranspiration Forecasting
• Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction of MODIS NDVI Data Sets Based on Data Assimilation Methods
• Uncertainty Analysis of Radar Wind Retrieval with Data Assimilation
• Accuracy Issues Associated with Satellite Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Data and Their Assimilation

GEO-DATA AND ONTOLOGY

• Geo-Data User Chains
• Estimation of Travel Times in the Context of Intermodal Transportation
• Building Semantic Ontology Databases Based on Remote Sensing Images
• Data Quality—What Can an Ontological Analysis Contribute?

POSITIONAL ACCURACY

• Effects of Exterior Orientation Elements on Direct Georeferencing in POS-Supported Aerial Photogrammetry
• Geometrical Uncertainty of Objects and Its Influence in the Object-Oriented Multi-Source Remote Sensing Imagery Processing
• Spatial Projection Rectification for Densifying Ground Control Points

ACCURACY IN CLASSIFICATION

• Uncertainty Analysis for Remote Sensing Classification in the Context of Disaster Studies in Shanghai
• Chlorophyll a (Chl-a) Concentration Measurement and Prediction in Taihu Lake Based on MODIS Image Data
• A General Method for Assessing the Uncertainty in Classified Remotely Sensed Data at Pixel Scale
• Consistency Analysis of Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Images for Land Cover Classification
• Methods for Estimating the Accuracy of Per-Pixel, Per-Parcel and Expert Visual Classification of High Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery
• A Method to Incorporate Uncertainty in the Classification of Remote Sensing Images
• Uncertainty and Its Propagation in Land Investigation
• The Impacts of Landscape Patterns on the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data Classification
• Land Cover Classification Information Decision Making Fusion Based on Dempster-Shafer Theory: Results and Uncertainty
• Sample Size Determination for Image Classification Accuracy Assessment and Comparison

ACCURACY IN DEMs

• Large Area DEM Generation Using Airborne LiDAR Data and Quality Control
• Temporal and Spatial Thermal Radiation Distribution Analysis within and above Crop Canopies by 3D Simulation
• Accuracy Evaluation and Gross Error Detection in Digital Elevation Models Based on LIDAR Data
• Handling Uncertainty in Underwater Terrain during Dredging by Using Filled-Matrix Algorithms
• Evaluation of Current DEM Accuracy for Condamine Catchment

POSTER SESSION

• Hui Cao: Automatic Recognition and Localization of Ground Marked Points Based on Template
• Yan Chen: Information-Theoretical Comparison between Actual and Potential Natural Vegetation
• Yuyong Cui: Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Compound Kernels of Support Vector Machine
• Shenghui Fang: Inversion of Surface Temperature Based on MODIS and ASTER Imagery
• Daniel Gann: Land-Cover Stratified Accuracy Assessment for a Digital Elevation Model of Dade County Florida, derived from Airborne LIDAR
• Hao Gong: Object-Based Correspondence Analysis for Improved Accuracy in Remotely Sensed Change Detection
• Yan Gong: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Interpretation Based on Spatial Information Analysis of Homogeneous-Regions
• Dezhu Gui: Quality Check in Urban and Rural Cadastral Spatial Data Updating
• Danhuai Guo: Propagation and Visualization of Uncertainty in NL-Based Spatial Analysis
• Xujun Han: On the Representation of Spatial Uncertainties with Stochastic Simulation in Land Data Assimilation
• Huaguo Huang: A Realistic Structure Model for Forest Radiosity Simulation on Large Scales
• Luyao Huang: Object-Oriented Classification of High Resolution Satellite Image for Better Accuracy
• Huifeng Ji: Accuracy of Matching between Probe-Vehicle and GIS Map
• Fangfang Li: Remote Sensing Image Classification Based on Improved Fast Independent Component Analysis
• Hao Li: Image-Based Spatial Information Systems for Geologic Logging
• Rui Liu: Mining Subsidence Monitoring by Using the Information of Ground Sunk Seeper
• Sheng Luo: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Digital Image Map Quality Based on the Cloud Model
• Lingkui Meng: A System for Automatic Processing of MODIS L1B Data
• Bin Pan: Error Analysis and Accuracy Assessment of InSAR Phase Unwrapping
• Guoqing Qu: Residual Error Analysis of GPS Data Sequence Based on WP
• Zhenfeng Shao: Image Mining for Generating Ontology Databases of Geographical Entities
• Lihua Tang: Multi-Index Regional Forest Fire Ratings Appraisal Platform Design and Implementation
• Shuliang Wang: Metric and Identification of Spatial Objects Based on Data Fields
• Zhiwei Wang: The Reconstruction and Applications of the Contour Lines Based on TINs
• Xiaohuan Xi: Forest Characteristics and Effects on LiDAR Waveforms Modeling and Simulation
• Moyan Xiao: Edge Detection of Riverway in Remote Sensing Images Based on Curvelet Transform and GVF Snake
• Aijun Xu: Study on Forest Fire Prevention Three-Dimensional Background Database
• Xue Yang: Simulation of Coastlines Based on Cloud Fractal
• Zifan Yu: An Improved Algorithm for Image Fractal Dimension
• Guifeng Zhang: A Remote Sensing Feature Discretization Method Accommodating Uncertainty in Classification Systems
• Guoqin Zhang: Measurement Indices of Positional Uncertainty for Plane Line Segments Based on the Model
• Hairong Zhang: A Mine Environmental GIS: Framework, Key Techniques, and Case Study
• Hong Zhang: Land Use/Cover Change Detection Using Feature Database Based on Vector-Image Data Conflation
• Juntuan Zhang: A New Method for Multi-Temporal SAR Image-Based Change Detection
• Juqing Zhang: Combined Fitting Based on Robust Trend Surface and Orthogonal Multiquadric with Applications in DEMs Fitting
• Kun Zhang: Estimation of Linear Vectorial Semiparametric Models by Least Squares
• Tao Zhang: An Image Decomposition Model Using the Dual Method and Norm
• Yunlin Zhang: Accuracy Evaluation of Three Dimensional Laser Range Scanner Based on Field Calibration
• Junqi Zhou: Accuracy in Remotely Sensed Urban Greenery Land Cover

NOTE: The above listed papers have not been peer-reviewed. Please read also the website disclaimer. To order the printed hardcover proceedings, please contact the publisher World Academic Press at publishing@WAU.org.uk. For corrections and errata, please contact the Proceedings editor: Jingxiong Zhang (Wuhan University, CN).