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MAT SIG Annual Report 1999-2000
Over the last year MATSIG has continued to be active in its remit of promoting modelling activities that advance our understanding of spatio-temporal forms and processes, and in the development of new techniques with which to achieve this.
Last year MATSIG took a break from organising sessions at the Remote Sensing Society annual conference, however, it was involved in running a successful session on ‘Surface Modelling’ at the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers annual conference. The meeting was organised by Dr Nick Tate, Prof. Peter Fisher and Dr Jo Wood from Leicester University. It considered a number of spatial problems and issues in remote sensing and GIS but concentrated on photogrammetry. Thus the meeting was timely in light of the proposed merger between RSS and the Photogrammetric Society. A number of papers from this session that focused on photogrammetry will be published as a special theme in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing. MATSIG will be active at RSS2000.
Giles Foody has organised a session on the subject of ‘Uncertainty modelling and Accuracy Assessment in Remote Sensing’. The session will address a number of issues ranging from the development of models for quantifying errors in landcover data, to problems caused by errors in ground reference data.
MATSIG (in collaboration with GISSIG) are also organising a session on ‘Innovations in Image Processing and Analysis’ that will consider a range of innovations in this area. Nick Drake, Stuart Barr and Richard Kelly of MATSIG and GISSIG have also co-operated to organise a special one day meeting entitled ‘Spatial Modelling of the Terrestrial Environment’ to be held at Birkbeck College London on November 17th 2000. The meeting is a bit of a departure for MATSIG in that we have invited a group of experts ranging from remote sensing scientists to spatial environmental modellers in order to provide a forum that focuses on recent developments in spatial modelling. The rational for the meeting is that understanding and managing environmental problems and processes requires spatial information over a wide range of scales and for a diverse range of processes. An increasingly important methodology for obtaining this spatial information is to implement or validate such models using remote sensing and GIS. The meeting will present the state of the art on the use of remote sensing for spatial modelling in the following subject areas: ice dynamics (Jonathan Bamber, Bristol Glaciology Centre; Tavi Murray Geography Leeds; Adrian Luckman, Geography Swansea), hydrological modelling (Stuart Lane, Geography Leeds; Paul Bates and Matt Horritt, Geographical Sciences, Bristol), geomorphological modelling (Mike Kirkby, Geography Leeds; Nick Drake, Geography Kings College London), SVAT and ecological modelling (Lester Simmonds, Soil Science Reading; Neil Lucas, Geography, Kingston), urban modelling (Mike Barnsley Geography Swansea; Stuart Barr, Geography Leeds; Lynn Devereux, Marcial Echenique Partners; Bernard Devereux, Geography Cambridge). If you are interested email Nick Drake at . We hope to see you there!
Nick Drake
