The Tenth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Science
Florianópolis – SC, Brazil, 10-13 July 2012

The tenth symposium was held in Florianópolis – SC Brazil. The proceedings were edited by Carlos Vieira, Vania Bogorny and Artur Ribeiro Aquino.
Keynote speakers
- Michael Goodchild, USA
- Thierry Toutin, National Geographic Institute(IGN), France
- Robert Haining,University of Cambridge, UK
- Linda Lilburne, Landcare Research, New Zealand
Conference papers
Chun Y. and Griffith D. A. On the quality of eigenvector spatial filtering based parameter estimates for the normal probability model: implications about uncertainty and specification error for georeferenced data, pp 1-6
Lowell K., Held A., Milne T., Mitchell A., Tapley I., Caccetta P., Lehmann E. and Zhou Z. Areal sample units for accuracy evaluation of single-date and multi-temporal image classifications, pp 7-12
Pinto C.T., Ponzonni F.J., Boggione G.A., Fonseca L.M.G. and Castro R.M. Uncertainties assessment in orbital or airborne sensors absolute calibration, pp 13-17
Pinto C.T., Pozonni F.J. and Castro R.M. In-lab radiometric instruments calibration and uncertainties assessment, pp 19-24
Pinto C.T., Ponzonni F.J. and Castro R.M. A reference surface uniformity and isotropy evaluation for orbital or airborne sensors absolute calibration, pp 26-30
Heremans S. and Van Orshoven J. A new way of calculating the sub-pixel confusion matrix: a comparative evaluation using an artificial dataset, pp 31-36
Batista L.F.A., Imai N.N., Silva Rotta L.H., Watanabe S.Y. and Velini E.D. Uncertainty analysis of a spatiotemporal model for submerged vegetation colonization, pp 37-42
Padilla M., Alonso-Canas I. and Chuvieco E. Error characterization of burned area products, pp 43-48
Oliveira J.C., Epiphanio J.C.N. and Rennó C.D. The use of spatial-temporal analysis for noise reduction in MODIS NDVI time series data, pp 49-54
Dal Poz A.P. and Fazan A.J. Snakes-based approach for extraction of building roof contours from digital aerial images, pp 55-60
Andrade L.L., Castro R.M. and Galvão L.S. Conversion of digital numbers of the HSS sensor TIR images into radiance: uncertainty evaluation, pp 61-66
Brunsdon C., Charlton M. and Harris P. Living with collinearity in local regression models, pp 67-72
Macedo R.C., Moreira M.Z., Domingues E., Gama A.M.R.C., Sanson E.G., Teixeira F.W., Dias F.P., Yamaguchi F.Y. and Jacintho L.R.C. Land cover and land use in Brazil and the environmental-economic accounts systems, pp 73-78
Sarmento P., Fonte C.C., Dinis J. and Caetano M. Influence of human uncertainty in the elaboration of fuzzy reference databases for the accuracy assessment of land cover maps, pp 79-84
Posen P., Large P. and Lee J. Estimating uncertainty in deriving spatial distribution of blue ling landings from vessel monitoring system (VMS) data and implications for delineating marine protection boundaries to the northwest of the British Isles, pp 85-90
Almeida F.C., Silva M.C., Rennó C.D., Pinto M.B.P., Trigo A.J. and Menonça M.G. Reliability of watershed area estimation using digital elevation models, pp 91-96
Cunha A.M., dos Santos G.R., Souza E., Trinidade F.S., Filho E.I.F., Lani J.L. and França M.M. Kriging and cokriging for spatial interpolation of rainfall in Espirito Santo state, Brazil, pp 97-102
Berra E.F., Fontana D.C. and Pereira R.S. Accuracy of forest stand volume estimation by Landsat TM imagery with different geometric and atmospheric correction methods, pp 103-108
Bittencourt H.R., Zanotta D.C. and Bazzan T. On the use of synthetic images for change detection accuracy assessment, pp 109-114
Svobodova J., Mirijovsky J., Vavra A., Brus J. and Kilianova H. Using of local indicators of spatial association for evaluation of spatial accuracy of DEM, pp 115-120
Lush V., Bastin L. and Lumsdon J. Geospatial data quality indicators, pp 121-126
Kavzoglu T. and Colkesen I. The effects of training set size for performance of support vector machines and decision trees, pp 127-132
Yildiz M., Kavzoglu T., Colkesen I. and Sahin E.K. An assessment of the effectiveness of segmentation methods on classification performance, pp 133-138
de Brum M. B. and Thum A.B. Study of the positional quality obtained by the method Precise Point Positioning, PPP, for use in georeferencing of rural properties, pp 139-144
Tanajura E.L.X., Gonçalves R.M., Pacheco A.P. and Krueger C.P. Assessment of geodetic coordinates processed using different baselines, pp 145-150
López-Vázquez C. On the interpolation algorithm ranking, pp 151-156
Alixandrini M. and Bähr H.-P. Land cover change analysis from remote sensing images and statistical data: case study Itaipú region, border Paraguay/Brazil, pp 157-162
Noetzold R., Alves M.C., Cassetari-Neto D. and Pires A.P. Spatial variability of the common bean Pratylenchus brachyurus, pp 163-168
Manfré L.A., Shinohara E.J., Silva J.B., Siqueira R.N.P. and Quintanhilha J.A. Assessment of SVM classification process for landslides identification, pp 169-174
Vendrame Jr H.C. and Brandalize M.C.B. Positional accuracy of Curitiba’s digital orthophoto map, pp 175-180
Magna Jr J.P., Camargo P.O. and Galo M. Improving the relationship between reference frames by using the Thin-Plate Spline modelling, pp 181-186
Pegoraro A.J., Napaleão M.C. and Philips J.W. Comparison between Google Earth kml data and RTK data on a flight planning simulated to the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Microdrone MD4-1000, pp 187-191
Zanin P.R. and Vieira C.A.O. The positional and thematic accuracy for analysis of multi-temporal satellite images on mangrove areas, pp 192-196
Duft D.G., Johann J.A., Rocha J.V. and Lamparelli R.A.C. Comparison of two summer crop mapping methods in the state of Paraná in 2008, pp 197-202
Foody G.M. and Boyd D.S. Exploring the potential role of volunteer citizen sensors in land cover map accuracy assessment, pp 203-208
Barros F.S., Fernandes R.A., Moraes M.A., Pougy N.M., Caram J.S., Dulcin E.C. and Martinelli G. Spatial data quality of herbarium datasets and implications for decision-making on biodiversity conservation in Brazil, pp 209-214
Brus J., Popelka S., Brychtova A. and Svobodova J. Exploring effectiveness of uncertainty visualization methods by eye-tracking, pp 215-220
Comber A., Fisher P., Brunsdon C. and Khmag A. Geographically weighted methods for examining the spatial variation in land cover accuracy, pp 221-226
Samuel-Rosa A., Dalmolin R.S.D. and Miguel P. Larger geologic complexity implies larger uncertainty, pp 227-232
Amhar, F. 10-C approach for quality assessment and accuracy of geospatial information in Indonesia, pp 233-238
Cárdenas A., Treviño E.J., Aguirre O.A., Jiménez J., González M.A., Antonio X. and Sánchez G. Vectorial analysis modeling to determine spatial uncertainty among different data production scales due to error propagation, pp 239-244
Castro Oliveira G., Faria M.M. and Filho E.I.F. Evaluation of hydrological consistency of DEMs derived from SRTM and ASTER2 in three levels of interpolation, pp 245-250
Truong P.N., Heuvelink G.B.M. and Gosling J.P. Expert elicitation for the varioogram, pp 251-256
Fronza J.G. and Vieira C.A.O. Change detection analysis in multitemporal satellite image series, pp 257-262
Oliveira K.A., Rosa A.N.S., Pereira R.S., Emiliano P.C., Almeida G.S. and Emmert F. Comparison between accuracy measures of images classified by Maximum likelihood and Artificial Neural Networks, pp 263-268
Machado M.V., Antunes M.H. and Debiasi P. Effect of control points distribution on the orthorectification accuracy of an Ikonos II image through rational polynomial functions, pp 269-274
Sampaio M. S., Alves M.C., Silva F.M., Pozza E.A., Oliveira M.S. and Sanches L. Geostatistical assessment of the spatial variability of soil texture in the coffee plantation, pp 275-280
Mello M.P., Adami M., Rudorff B.F.T. and Aguiar D.A. Canasat Project accuracy assessment of sugarcane thematic maps, pp 281-286
Alvarez M.V. Visibility analysis and DEM uncertainty propagation, pp 287-292
Ruckebusch G. Random field modelling of DEM uncertainty and its impact on terrain referenced navigation, pp 293-298
Felgueiras C.A., Camargo E.C.G., Ortiz J.O. and Rosim S. Using spatial uncertainties to create probability maps for continuous attributes, pp 299-304
Yoo E.-H., Chen D. and Russell C. Site-specific prediction of mosquito abundance using spatio-temporal geostatistics, pp 305-310
Silva J.X. and Marino T.B. A wanted traffic, pp 311-316
Namikawa L.M. Estimation of DEM uncertainty using clustering analysis, pp 317-322
Parreira S.F., Santo M.A. and Porath P.H.M. Evaluation of the cartographic accuracy of the DEM generated by a stereo pair of images Ikonos, pp 323-328
Leopold U., Heuvelink G.B.M. and Zachary D.S. Accounting for spatial and temporal uncertainties in spatio-temporal disaggregation of emission predictions using ATP simulation
Jia X., Li X. and Van der Meer F.D. Detection and reduction of the collinearity effect for improving spectral unmixing accuracy
Bostan P.A., Akyurek S.Z. and Heuvelink G.B.M. Space-time Universal Kriging of precipitation in the Euphrates Basin, Turkey
Chukwusa E., Comber A. and Brunsdon C. Network accuracy: the impact of the 3D distances on location-allocation, pp 334-338
Mas J.-F. and Vega E. Assessing yearly transition probability matrix for land use/land cover dynamics, pp 345-350
Noetzold R., Alves M.C., Sobrinho J.A.F., Gallon R.A., Oliveira M.J.P.A., Borges H.H.T. and Silva R.T. Comparative analysis of ellipsoidal elevation surveyed by GNSS system, SRTM and ASTER GDEM, pp 351-356
Shortridge A. and Shi M. Changing the TIGER’s stripes: detecting road network change under positional uncertainty, pp 357-362
Bell S., Comford D., Bastin L. and Molyneux M. Uncertainty in user-contributed weather data, pp 363-364
Capobiango G.V., Silva D.D., Guedes H.A.S. and Porto B.B. DEMHC generation from IBGE topographic maps using ArcGIS software, pp 365-371
Martins V.S., Silva D.D., Guedes H.A.S. and Porto B.B. Inaccuracies on morphometric characterization of watersheds on GIS ambient, pp 372-378
Yue T.-X., Song D.-J. and Du Z.-P. An optimal control method for high accuracy surface modeling and its application to DTM construction, pp 379-382
Griffith D.A. Some expectation-maximization (EM) algrotihm simplifications for spatial data, pp 388-393
Manzione R.L. and Wendland E. Communicating uncertainty about groundwater scenarios using stochastic simulation of water table depths time series, pp 400-405
Leung Y., Zhao Z. and Ma J.-H. A note on the uncertainty analysis of space-time prisms based on the Moment-Design method, pp 406-411