Past conferences


14th Symposium: Spatial Accuracy 2020 – Assessing the Quality of Geospatial Big Data

7-10 July 2020 Buffalo, New York, USA

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13th Symposium: Spatial Accuracy 2018

21-24 May 2018 Beijing, China

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12th Symposium: Spatial Accuracy 2016

5-8 July 2016 Montpellier, France

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11th Symposium: Spatial Accuracy 2014

7-11 July 2014 East Lansing, Michigan, USA

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10th Symposium: Spatial Accuracy 2012

10-13 July 2012 Florianópolis – SC, Brazil

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9th Symposium: Accuracy 2010

20-23 July 2010 Leicester, United Kingdom

Accuracy 2010 was organized and hosted by the University of Leicester. The conference proceedings can be accessed from here.

Keynote speakers:

  • Ola Ahlqvist, Ohio State University, USA
  • Chris Brunsdon, University of Leicester, UK
  • Pierre Goovaerts, BioMedware, USA
  • Curtis Woodcock, Boston University, USA

 

 


8th Symposium: Accuracy 2008

25-27 June 2008 Shanghai, China

Accuracy 2008 was organized and hosted jointly by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University, and the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping. The conference proceedings can be accessed from here. See also: official brochure; Read a report from the conference by T. Hengl.

Keynote speakers:

  • Peter Atkinson, University of Southampton, UK
  • Carol Gotway Crawford, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
  • Michael Goodchild, University of California, USA
  • Deren LI, Wuhan University, CHN
  • Bryan C. Pijanowski, Purdue University, USA
  • Wenzhong SHI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
  • Stephen V. Stehman, State University of New York (SUNY), USA
  • Alfred Stein, ITC, The Netherlands

7th Symposium: Accuracy 2006

5-7 July 2006 Lisbon, Portugal

Accuracy 2006 was the 7th meeting in a series of biannual symposia organised by the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association. It covered topics related with assessment, modelling, visualisation and propagation of uncertainty in spatial data and process models, with an emphasis on themes related with the environment and natural resources. The proceedings with all papers submitted can be accessed from here. See also: official brochure; the final report;

Keynote speakers:

  • Yohay Carmel, The Technion, Israel
  • Giles Foody, University of Southampton, UK
  • Gerard Heuvelink, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  • Phaedon Kyriakidis, University of California, USA
  • Gil Pontius, Clark University, USA

6th Symposium: Accuracy 2004 in conjunction with the 15th Annual Conference of the International Environmetric Society

28 June – 1 July 2004 Portland, Maine, USA

This Accuracy symposia was organized together with the The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Evironmetrics Society. The joint proceedings with all papers submitted can be accessed from here.

Keynote speakers:

  • Brillinger, David R., University of California, USA
  • Calder, Catherine, Ohio State University, USA
  •  Fasso, Alessandro, University of Bergamo, Italy
  • Goovaerts, Pierre, Biomedware, Inc., USA
  • Lowell, Kim, University of Laval, Canada
  • Myers, Donald, University of Arizona, USA
  • Quintanilha, J.A., Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
  • Scott, Marian, University of Glasgow, Scotland

5th Symposium: Accuracy 2002

10-12 July 2002 Melbourne, Australia

The proceedings were published by RMIT University and University of Melbourne. There were over 100 short papers and posters, from which some were peer-reviewed… over 540 pages.

Keynote speakers:

  • Keith Beven, Lancaster University, UK
  • Helen Couclelis, University of California, USA
  • Harry Kiiveri, CSIRO, Australia

 

 

 


4th Symposium: Accuracy 2000

12-14 July 2000 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The proceedings were published by Delft University Press (G.B.M. Heuvelink and M.J.P.M. Lemmens eds). Over 90 papers are included in the proceedings. Topics include: error propagation in wildfire behaviour modeling, accuracy in prediction of soil orders using different classification algorithms, neurofuzzy systems in landslide hazard assessment, an algebra for spatial data quality assurance routines… over 750 pages, ISBN: 90-407-2085-1.

Keynote speakers:

  • Giles Foody, University of Southampton, UK
  • Keith Loague, Stanford University, USA
  • Arnold Heemink, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

 


3rd Symposium: Accuracy 1998

May 1998 Quebec City, Canada

The proceedings were published by Ann Arbor Press under the title “Spatial Accuracy Assessment: Land Information Uncertainty in Natural Resources” (eds. Kim Lowell and Annick Jaton). This conference drew experts from around the world and the resulting volume truly addresses state-of-the-art techniques for spatial uncertainty science. Chapter headings include the effect of spatial uncertainty on decision-making, methods of characterising spatial uncertainty, representation and visualising spatial uncertainty, generalisation and aggregation issues, and the impact of spatial uncertainty on the analysis of satellite images… 450 pages, ISBN 1-57504-119-7.

Keynote speakers:

  • Todd Mowrer, USA
  • Daniel Griffith, University of Texas, USA
  • Nicholas Chrisman, University of Washington, USA

2nd Symposium: Accuracy 1996

21-23 May 1996 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

These Proceedings were in their second printing, with over 3000 copies in circulation. Selected papers from the proceedings of the second Symposium were also published in a revised and expanded form by Ann Arbor Press under the title “Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty in Natural Resources: Theory and Applications for GIS and Remote Sensing” (eds. H. Todd Mowrer and Russel G. Congalton). 728 pages, ISBN 1-57504-131-6.

Keynote speakers:

  • Russell Congalton
  • Noel Cressie
  • Michael Goodchild

1st Symposium: Accuracy 1994

16-20 May 1994 Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

International symposium on the spatial accuracy of natural resource databases.