The international conference Spatial Accuracy 2016 will be held in Montpellier (southern France) from the 5th to the 8th of July, 2016. The call for abstracts is now open at https://colloque.inra.fr/spatial-accuracy2016/

The 12th International symposium on « Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences » is the latest in an academic conference series held every two years since 1994 under the auspices of the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA, http://www.spatial-accuracy.org/).
The Symposium is a unique place to bring together experts from environmental sciences, natural resources, spatial statistics, and geographic information science, among other disciplines, developing theory and methods for assessing and understanding spatial accuracies and spatial uncertainties in, for example, mapping, monitoring systems, and spatial simulation platforms. This 12^th edition of the symposia will focus on sensitivity analyses techniques for spatial modelling (ranking the importance of spatial input uncertainties) as well as the management of spatial uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Of course, treatments of other relevant accuracy and uncertainty topics are welcome, too.
 
Important deadline dates:

31 December 2015: Workshop proposal

31 December 2015: Peter Burrough Medal Nomination

31 January 2016: Abstract submission

18 March 2016: Abstract notification

22 April 2016: Short final paper submission

17 May 2016: Author registration deadline

5-8 July 2016: Spatial Accuracy’16

Topics:

Aggregation and generalization in spatial uncertainty assessment

Design and model-based approaches in spatial accuracy

Incorporating uncertainty in spatial decision making

Management of spatial uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems

Modelling uncertainty using geostatitics and stochastic geometry

Positional uncertainty in spatial analyses

Scaling in spatial uncertainty assessment

Semantic uncertainty and vagueness

Sensitivity analysis techniques for GIS and spatial modelling

Spatial and spatio-temporal uncertainty modelling

Spatial sampling design

Stochastic spatial simulation

Uncertainty analysis in GIS and spatial modelling

Uncertainty in remotely sensed data and images

Visualizing spatial uncertainty

A selection of extended versions of the best papers may be proposed for special issues of the following journals:

• IJAEIS (Environmental Issue): http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-agricultural-environmental-information/1160

• JIMIS (Interdisciplinary Methodological Issue): http://jimis.episciences.org/

The conference co-chairs and scientific committee members look forward to your contributions and participation.