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The geospatial revolution has created a wide range of methods to analyze geographic data for detecting patterns and relationships. However, the treatment and interpretation of issues surrounding the concept of scale are diverse and highlight the complexity of scale. The results of this geographic information science work applied to the Earth sciences often provide information to better understand and predict landscape characteristics. Different avenues of investigation have set up their own frameworks in order to organize their approach for obtaining the information they need from the spatial data available. These areas of investigation overlap at the same time that they offer unique perspectives.

This session aims to bring together the latest innovations and conceptual strategies from across disciplines, including but not limited to the use of spatial analysis, geostatistics, spatial regression, hierarchy theory, and digital terrain analysis. While sharing new strategies of analysis, we invite discussion for consolidating concepts of scale across disciplines. As often as the term ‘scale’ is used in the titles of presentations and publications, what exactly does it mean and how does it interact with our understanding of the environment?

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Abstract submission

The abstract submission to the EGU General Assembly 2017 is now officially open and the deadline is 11 Jan 2017. But remember that if you want to apply for financial support the deadline is closer: 01 Dec 2016.

Submitting an abstract requires you to choose one of the sessions of the Soil System Sciences group. This year we want you to consider submitting your abstract to the session that we are organizing: Aspects of Scale in Geospatial Analysis and Landscape Mapping (SSS12.7). In this session we want to discuss about scale.

We went through all SSS sessions and short-courses proposed for EGU2017 and observed that (excluding ours) seven of them have the word 'scale' in the name. Although some of them might not be directly connected to our session, we believe that they all reflect our concern: what exactly does 'scale' mean and how does it interact with our understanding of the landscape?

Our sense is that some of those sessions and short-courses are really topical with the word 'scale' thrown in to make the title sound more interesting. It may be that their conveners are not really focusing the topics of their sessions and short-courses on scale itself, but are simply leaving it open to their speakers to talk about whatever analysis/mapping scale they wish. Those sessions and short-courses titles would still appropriately describe the content without the word 'scale', but we guess that adding the text makes the description sound more exciting. However, there are other sessions and short-courses that are certainly inviting some dealing with scale interaction issues. Ours is one of them and we want you there!
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