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OOS-9: Multiscale advanced raster map analysis for ecosystem health monitoring,
assessment, and management in the 21st Century
Endorsed
by the Editors of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Multiscale Advanced
Raster Map Analysis, and EcoHealth
Monday,
August 8, 1:30 PM - 5 PM, Meeting Rooms 511a and 511d, Level 5, Palais des congrès
de Montréal
Organizers:
Ganapati Patil (gpp@stat.psu.edu),
Wayne Myers
Description:
Consider
an imminent 21st Century scenario: What message does a multi-categorical map
have about the large landscape it represents? And at what scale, and at what
level of detail? Does the spatial pattern of the map reveal any societal,
ecological, or environmental condition of the landscape? And therefore can it be
an indicator of change? How do you automate the assessment of the spatial
structure and behavior of change to discover critical areas, hot spots, and
their corridors? Is the map accurate? How accurate is it? How do you assess the
accuracy of the map? How do we evaluate a temporal change map for change
detection? What are the implications of the kind and amount of change and
accuracy on what matters, whether climate change, carbon emission, water
resources, urban sprawl, biodiversity, indicator species, human health, or early
warning? And with what confidence? The session brings together a
multidisciplinary group of promising and prominent speakers involved with
ecosystem health monitoring, assessment, and management using frontier
statistical and computational techniques for analyzing, assessing, and
extracting information from raster maps, with a wide range of applications.
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