Notice of RSS meeting organised jointly by Environmental Stats Sudy
Group and General Applications Section of RSS
Tues, March 16: Statistics with GIS and Remote Sensing: Some issues
at the interface.
10.00 to 17.00 at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street,
London EC1Y 8LX
This meeting aims to explore the uses and requirements for statistical
approaches to spatially referenced environmental data, particularly in
the context of data typically stored in Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) or collected by remote sensing techniques. The speakers
include a mix of geographers and statistcians and discussion between
all participants will be encouraged.
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Useful statistics for the GIS User?
Neil Stuart, Department of Geography, University of
Edinburgh
11.20 Geostatistics for remote sensing and GIS
Peter Atkinson, Department of Geography, University of
Southampton
12.10 Registration of remotely-sensed images using an estimated
digital elevation model
Chris Glasbey, Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland,
Edinburgh
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Generalized linear models and geostatistics: an application
to mapping sea bird densities on the North Sea.
Edzer Pebesma, Department of Physical Geography,
University of Utrecht
14.50 Some Developments in Multivariate Descriptive Methods for
Spatial Data
Trevor Bailey and Wojtek Krzanowski, School of
Mathematical Sciences, University of Exeter
15.40 Tea
16.00 Filtering of multitemporal radar images for large scale
mapping
Shaun Quegan, School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Sheffield
There will be a fee of £15, which includes a buffet lunch, coffee and
tea.
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