Please, find hereafter the announcement for the following international exercise.
SIC2004 is the second edition of a scientific exercise dedicated to GIS and spatial statistics. SIC2004 stands for Spatial Interpolation Comparison 2004. Participants will receive a subset of an environmental data set (typically measurements of an environmental variable + spatial coordinates of the sampling places) and will have to estimate the values taken by the variable at the remaining locations of the full data set. The true values found at these locations will be made public only at the end of the exercise. Various criteria will be used to assess the performances of the interpolation algorithms (time of calculation, minimum errors, etc.). This edition will focus on automatic mapping algorithms: participants to SIC2004 will have to prepare their algorithms before receiving the data (only sampling locations will be given) and no interaction with the algorithm will be allowed during the exercise. Participants to SIC2004 will be invited to submit a manuscript at the end of the exercise for publication in the online journal GIDA (Geographic Information and Decision Analysis) as well as in a European Report (hardcopy). For more information, please visit the web site www.ai-geostats.org Keywords: geostatistics, GIS, spatial statistics, neural networks, spatial interpolation __________________________________________ Gregoire Dubois (Ph.D.) JRC - European Commission Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring TP 441, Via Fermi 1 21020 Ispra (VA) ITALY Tel. +39 (0)332 78 6360 Fax. +39 (0)332 78 5466 WWW: http://www.ai-geostats.org . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
