About ISARA

The International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA) is a research group that focuses on how to measure, model and manage uncertainty in spatial natural resource or environmental information. ISARA consists of the ISARA steering committee and a wider group of spatial accuracy researchers and practitioners.

ISARA biannually organizes a conference entitled “International Symposia on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences”, also called “Spatial Accuracy” for short. The core topics discussed within ISARA are:

• Uncertainty in terrain modelling
• Uncertainty in vegetation mapping
• Navigation uncertainty
• Spatial data quality measures
• Uncertainty visualisation techniques
• Uncertainty in decision making
• Mathematical modelling of uncertainty in GIS

Steering committee

Ashton Shortridge(Michigan State University,USA)（Chair）

Lucy Bastin (Aston University, UK)

Gerard Heuvelink (Wageningen University, NL)

Yong Ge (Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CN)

Jean-Stéphane Bailly (Université d´Avignon, FR)

Rachel Whitsed (Charles Sturt University, AU)

Main organisers of past conferences

Yong Ge (Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CN)

Jean-Stéphane Bailly(AgroParisTech, FR)

Didier Josselin (AgroParisTech, FR)

Ashton Shortridge(Michigan State University, US)

Carlos Vieira (Departamento de Geociências, BR)

Nicolas Tate (University of Leicester, UK)

Peter Atkinson (University of Southampton, UK)

Jingxiong Zhang (Wuhan University, CN)

Yong Ge (Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CN)

Mário Caetano (Portuguese Geographic Institute, PT)

Ron McRoberts (U.S. Forest Service, US)

Gerard Heuvelink (Wageningen University, NL)

Kim Lowell (University of Melbourne, AU)

Todd Mowrer (U.S. Forest Service, US)

James Smith (Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, US)

Acting Treasurer

Kim Lowell (University of Melbourne, AU)