Research Catalog

Title

Spatial accuracy assessment : land information uncertainty in natural resources / edited by Kim Lowell, Annick Jaton.

Publication

Chelsea, Mich. : Ann Arbor Press, ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lowell, Kim.
• Jaton, Annick.
• International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (3rd : 1998 : Quebec City, Québec)

Description

xiv, 455 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

• Geographic information systems > Congresses
• Spatial analysis (Statistics) > Congresses
• Natural resources > Management > Statistical methods > Congresses
• Geographic information systems
• Natural resources > Management > Statistical methods
• Spatial analysis (Statistics)
• GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTESMS
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• RESOURCES
• MANAGEMENT
• CONFERENCES

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Based on papers presented at the Third International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in Quebec City, Canada, May 20-22, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. Keynote Speeches. 1. Accuracy (Re)assurance: Selling Uncertainty Assessment to the Uncertain / H.T. Mowrer. 2. Uncertainty and Error Propagation in Map Analyses Involving Arithmetic and Overlay Operations: Inventory and Prospects / D.A. Griffith, R.P. Haining and G. Arbia. 3. Speaking Truth to Power: An Agenda for Change / N.R. Chrisman -- pt. II. Sensitivity of Decision-Making to Spatial Uncertainty. 4. Assessing "Fitness for Use" of Geographic Information: What Risk Are We Prepared to Accept in Our Decisions? / A. Agumya and G.J. Hunter. 5. Alternative Measures for Comparing Thematic Map Accuracy / S.V. Stehman.

ISBN

• 1575041197
• 9781575041193

LCCN

99018424

OCLC

• ocm40820994
• 40820994
• SCSB-1257175

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library