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4th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences<p>Within the environmental sciences - whether it be hydrology, soil science, geomorphology, oceanography, forestry, climatology, geo-ecology or any other branch that one may think of - much use is made of spatially distributed data. These data, frequently stored as maps in a spatial data base or Geographical Information System (GIS), are rarely, if ever, truly free of error. Furthermore, these data are often used as inputs to various models of environmental processes that are themselves also subject to uncertainty. Spatial statistics and stochastic systems theory offer methodologies to handle these uncertainties, but the successful implementation and application of these methods requires the joint efforts of scientists from various disciplines. <p> The aim of this Symposium is to bring together experts from environmental science, spatial statistics and geographic information science to further develop theory and practical application of handling spatial uncertainty in the environmental sciences.
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