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Dear Sir/Madam,
The International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality will be
held at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 18th July, 99
to 20th July, 99.
The ISSDQ'99 Conference Final Program will be
loaded on the ISSDQ website
(http://www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/ISSDQ/).
The following is a summary of the final program.
Please take a moment to read through presentations.
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Final Program of ISSDQ'99
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Date: 18th July 99
Time: 9:00-12:00
Activity:
Pre-Symposium Workshop
Management of uncertainty in geographical information
Chair: Peter Fisher
Time: 14:00-17:00
Activity:
Pre-Symposium Workshop
Introduction to non-probabilistic approaches to
handling uncertainty and imprecision in spatial data
Chair: Michael Worboys
Date: 19th July 99
Time: 9:00-9:30
Activity:
Opening Ceremony
Welcome Speeches by
¨ Prof. Poon Chung-kwong,
(President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
¨ The Honourable Sin Chung-kai
(The Legislative Council of HKSAR)
Time: 10:15-12:00
Activity:
Keynote Speeches
¨ Measurement-based GIS
By Michael Goodchild
¨ GIS and geostatistics: essential partners for
spatial analysis
By Peter Burrough
Time: 14:00-15:15
Activity:
Sessions A1, A2, A3
Time: 15:45-17:45
Activity:
Sessions B1, B2, B3, B4
Date: 20th July 99
Time: 9:00-11:00
Activity:
Sessions C1, C2, C3, C4
Time: 11:30-12:50
Activity:
Sessions D1, D2, D3
Time: 14:30-16:30
Activity:
Panel Discussion
Can Statistical and Fuzzy Sets Approaches Complement Each
Other in Dealing with the Problem of Uncertainty in
Spatial Data?
by Moderated by Michael Goodchild, Yee Leung, Peter Fisher,
Vincent Robinson and Maria A. Cobb
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Keynote Speeches
Co-chair: Martien Molenaar
Co-chair: Y.C. Lee
Measurement-based GIS
Michael F. Goodchild (USA)
GIS and Geostatistics: essential partners for
spatial analysis
Peter Burrough (The Netherlands)
Session A1 Error in Registration and Matching
Co-chair: Yang-cheng Liao
Co-chair: Henri Aalders
The registration of quality in a GIS
Henri J.G.L. Aalders (The Netherlands)
Geometrical matching of polygons in GISs and assessment
of geometrical quality of polygons
Atef Bel Hadj Ali and Francois Vauglin (France)
Spatial data inconsistency and solutions: The case of
Ha Noi Administrative Boundary
Duong Quoc Nghi, Kaew Nualchawee, Apisit Eiumnoh,
Amador Remigio and H. Detlef Kammeier (Thailand)
Uncertainty measurement of spatial data in temporal dimension
Baogang Zhang (China)
Session A2 Communicating Uncertainty and Resolution
Co-chair: Michael F. Goodchild
Co-chair: Anthony Yeh
Communicating uncertainty for global data sets
Ashton M. Shortridge and Michael F. Goodchild (USA)
Communicating quality in spatial information: notification
- the first step
Karin Reinke and Gary J. Hunter (Australia)
Data quality: a model for resolvable objects
Thomas K. Windholz, Kate M. Beard
and Michael F. Goodchild (USA)
A practical study on precision and resolution in vector
geographical databases
Francois Vauglin (France)
Session A3 Spatial Data Quality Control
Co-chair: Wihelm Caspary
Co-chair: Francois Vauglin
Statistical quality control of geodata
Wihelm Caspary and Gerhard Joos (Germany)
Sampling inspection to digital products in GIS
Dajie Liu and Chun Liu (China)
Maintaining spatial relativity of utilities after DCDB
upgrade
Roger Merritt and Dr. Ewan Masters (Australia)
A spatial adjustment approach to upgrade of utility data
Ling Yan and David Pullar (Australia)
Session B1 Quality Management
Co-chair: Laure Dassonville
Co-chair: Peter Fisher
Quality management, data quality and users, metadata for
geographical information
Laure Dassonville, Francois Vauglin, Antti Jakobsson
and Claude Luzet (France)
Spatial accuracy in the evaluation of the safer cities
programme in England
Ho Law and Peter Fisher (UK)
Quality evaluation of topographic datasets-experiences
in European National Mapping Agencies
Antti Jakobsson (Finland)
Influence of standardization and economic management
instruments on GIS-quality
Prof. Dr. -Ing. Hans Knoop (Germany)
An uncertainty model for the New Zealand land
resource inventory
Robert G. Gibb, Mark R. Johnston and
Garth R. Harmsworth (New Zealand0
Digital cadastral upgrades - a progress report
Roger Merritt and Dr. Ewan Masters (Australia)
Session B2 Accuracy of DEM
Co-chair: Jun Chen
Co-chair: Zhilin Li
Accuracy of digital elevation models generated by ANUDEM
at a macro-scale level
Pu Lin and Jimmy Yu (Australia)
Assessment of the accuracy of digital terrain models (DTM):
theory and practice
Zhilin Li and Jun Chen (Hong Kong)
Quality description problems of blindly sampled DEMs
Mathias J.P.M. Lemmens (The Netherlands)
Errors in measurement and their effects on digital elevation
models of flat terrains
Steffen Bock and Petra Witez (Germany)
The effects of image compression on DTM accuracy
Kent W.K. Lam, Nelson F.S. Chan and Zhilin Li (Hong Kong)
3D topological grid data structure for modeling subsurface
Xiaohai Wang and Shiwei Bai (China)
Session B3 Visualization of Uncertainty
Co-chair: Keith C. Clarke
Co-chair: Jane Drummond
Visualizing uncertainty in fuzzy thematic classifications
of multispectral satellite imagery
L. Bastin, J. Wood and P.F. Fisher (UK)
Virtual depth-based representation of cartographic
uncertainty
Keith C. Clarke, Paul D. Teague and H. Greg Smith (USA)
Visualization of uncertainty in geographic data
Igor Drecki (New Zealand)
Using particle system model to visualize uncertainty
polygon fill
Tinghua Ai and Zhongliang Cai (China)
A united model of visualizing positional uncertainties
for spatial objects within vector GIS
Honglei Dai, Wenbao Liu and Daosheng Du (China)
Visual icon and interface and its application in GIS
Jianhua Wang, Huiwu Yan and Guorui Zhu (China)
Session B4 Positional Error Models
Co-chair: M.A. Chapman
Co-chair: Howard Veregin
Minimizing positional error induced by line simplification
Howard Veregin and Xiping Dai (USA)
Development of error models for transition curves in GIS
Xiaohua Tong, Wenzhong Shi and Dajie Liu (Hong Kong)
Uncertainty models of GIS objects
Ali A. Alesheikh, M.A. Chapman, J.A.R. Blais
and H. Karimi (Canada)
Effect of spatial variation on design storm contours
Ke-sheng Cheng, Hui-chung Yeh and Yen-Ben Cheng (Taiwan)
An approach to positional accuracy improvement for
spatial data in GIS database
Guoxin Tan, Tianen Chen and Ryosuke Shibasaki (Japan)
Simulating reliability of spatial objects in a 3D GIS
Wenzhong Shi and Chui-kwan Cheung (Hong Kong)
Session C1 Reporting Spatial Data Quality with Metadata
Co-chair: Gary J. Hunter
Co-chair: Jintong Jiang
Reporting spatial data quality: from concepts to reality
Gray J. Hunter (Australia)
Geospatial metadata and its management
Elton Chan and Y.C. Lee (Hong Kong)
Metadata clearinghouse a vital component of spatial
data infrastructure
Kin-wah Leung (Hong Kong)
Researching and implementation of metadata standard for
geographic information in China
Ruomei Liu, Jingtong Jiang and Yunpeng Jia (China)
Managing data quality information
Jibo Qiu and Gary J. Hunter (Australia)
Development of error metadata management system with
application to Hong Kong 1:20,000 digital data
Ernesto Gan and Wenzhong Shi (Hong Kong)
Session C2 Errors in Thematic Data
Co-chair: Peter Burrough
Co-chair: David Wing-shun Wong
Comparison of two approaches to make reliable soil maps
for policy purposes
Drs. Marinus de Bakker and
Dr. Jan Erik van Deijnen (The Netherlands)
The application of GIS in research on population
distribution contour ranges of different altitudes
above sea level in Yunnan Province
Ming Meng, Xing Lu and Lixun Ding (China)
Improving the quality of census data using GIS
Yan Liu (Australia)
Spatial data in the establishment of cadastral
information system
Junsan Zhao and Yaolong Zhao (China)
The establishment of GIS-oriented databases for the urban
digital map
Liming Wu (China)
In sight or insight?: A critical view of GIS viewshed analysis
Clay Mathers and David Wong (USA)
Session C3 Errors in Forest Applications
Co-chair: Brian Lees
Co-chair: Christine Tse
A comparison between the accuracy of traditional forest
mapping and more advanced database oriented techniques
Brian Lees and Belinda Allison (Australia)
Monte Carlo simulation of long-term spatial error
propagation in forestry databases
Michael Weir (The Netherlands)
Uncertainty in wide-range estimation of forest inventory
and leaf area index with airborne laser altimetry
Emmanuel R.G. Abraham and Tatsuo Sweda (Japan)
Research on application of GPS in forestry
Cankun Hu (China)
An administrative region positioning system of
monitoring forest fire by satellite in Yunnan Province
Hongxu Zhao (China)
Session C4 Modeling Spatial Objects with Uncertainty
Co-chair: Yee Leung
Co-chair: Michael Worboys
Spatial objects without boundaries
Martien Molenaar (The Netherlands)
Modeling topological relationships of spatial
objects with uncertainties
Wenzhong Shi and Wei Guo (Hong Kong)
An intelligent, distributed, error-aware object-oriented GIS
Matt Duckham and John McCreadie (UK)
Syntactic representation of three fuzzy object models
Tao Cheng and Martien Molenaar (The Netherlands)
GIS spatial data model considering uncertainties
Jin Zhang, Dajie Liu and Xiaohua Tong (China)
Session D1 Uncertainty in Spatial Analysis
Co-chair: Gerard Heuvelink
Co-chair: W.P. Cheng
Construction and evaluation of spatial partitions to
describe geographical flows
J. Bolot, P. Chatonnay and D. Josselin (France)
Spatial data analysis with ANN: geoenvironmental
modelling of harbour siltation
Yingjie Yang and Michael Rosenbaum (UK)
Fractal analysis of valley information
Genshou Zhang (China)
Theory and application of inverse thought model of
spatial information
Yi Long and Qingyun Du (China)
Session D2 Reasoning and Decision Making with Uncertainty
Co-chair: Ke-sheng Cheng
Co-chair: Daosheng Du
Hierarchical topological reasoning with vague regions
Stephan Winter and Thomas Bittner (Austria)
Uncertainties in spatial decisions, a policy-maker point
of view
Sébastien Brunet and Bernard Cornélis (Belgium)
Translating uncertainty in geographical data into risk
in decisions
Aggrey Agumya and Gary J. Hunter (Australia)
Spatial membership function models of fuzzy geographical
phenomenon and their application
Yaolong Zhao, Junsan Zhao and Xinzhou Wang (China)
Session D3 Uncertainty in Image Analysis
Co-chair: Tung Fung
Co-chair: Wenzhong Shi
Filling in the holes: estimating missing data for
deriving land cover classifications
Conrad M. Bielski and Francois Cavayas (Canada)
Remotely sensed data based information system:
considerations for uncertainty, errors and limitations
J.K. Mishra, D.S. Permana, T. Nakajima, T. Yuasa
and T. Akatsuka (Japan)
Image segmentation based on fractal features extracting
and neural network
Gui Feng and Qi Wei Lin (China)
The fusion of remote sensing based on three-band
wavelet transform
Changqing Zhu (China)
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Yours truly,
Tracy Cheung
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