Geographic Uncertainty in Environmental Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Fuzzy Regions: Theory and Applications

   • Jörg Verstraete, Axel Hallez, Guy De Tré

   Pages 1-17

3. Mapping the Ecotone with Fuzzy Sets

   • Charles Arnot, Peter Fisher

   Pages 19-32

4. Issues and Challenges of Incorporating Fuzzy Sets in Ecological Modeling

   • Vincent B. Robinson

   Pages 33-51

5. Reliability of Vegetation Community Information Derived using Decorana Ordination and Fuzzy c-means Clustering

   • Lucy Bastin, Peter Fisher, M. C. Bacon, Charles Arnot, M. J. Hughes

   Pages 53-74

6. A Rough Set-based Approach to Handling Uncertainty in Geographic Data Classification

   • Piotr Jankowski

   Pages 75-87

7. Fuzzy Models for Handling Uncertainty in the Integration of High Resolution Remotely Sensed Data and GIS

   • Jochen Schiewe, Manfred Ehlers

   Pages 89-106

8. Incompleteness, Error, Approximation, and Uncertainty: an Ontological Approach to Data Quality

   • Andrew U. Frank

   Pages 107-131

9. A Flexible Decision Support Approach to Model ill-defined Knowledge in GIS

   • Gloria Bordogna, Marco Pagani, Gabriella Pasi

   Pages 133-152

10. Development of the Geoinformation System of the State Ecological Monitoring

    • Vitaliy B. Mokin

    Pages 153-165

11. Mapping Type 2 Change in Fuzzy Land Cover

    • Charles Arnot, Peter Fisher

    Pages 167-186

12. Indexing Implementation for Vague Spatial Regions with R-trees and Grid Files

    • Frederic E. Petry, Roy Ladner, Maria Somodevilla

    Pages 187-199

13. Association Rule Mining using Fuzzy Spatial Data Cubes

    • Narin Isik, Adnan Yazici

    Pages 201-224

14. Interactive Objects Extraction from Remote Sensing Images

    • Victor Bucha, Sergey Ablameyko

    Pages 225-238

15. Classification of Remotely Sensed Data

    • Svitlana Kokhan

    Pages 239-247

16. Sustainability and Environmental Security Management Tools

    • Alexander Gorobets

    Pages 249-257

17. Remote Sensing and GIS Application for Environmental Monitoring and Accidents Control in Ukraine

    • D. K. Mozgoviy, O. I. Parshyna, V. I. Voloshyn, Y. I. Bushuyev

    Pages 259-270

18. ProDec – Emergency Procedure Based on Fuzzy Notions for Catchment Management

    • Jan W. Owsinski, Andrej Ziólkowski

    Pages 271-283

19. Back Matter

    Pages 285-287

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On June 28 through July 1, 2006, a NATO advanced research workshop was held in Kyiv, Ukraine. This meeting of scholars from both NATO and NATO partner countries brought together the leading researchers in the field of Fuzziness and Uncertainty in GIS for Environmental Security and Protection. The papers based upon the presentations at this meeting are included in this book. They were all quite good, some focusing on the use of fuzzy sets in geography, others focusing on explicit environmental concerns in Ukraine. What this book cannot show is the camaraderie and spirit of cooperation that permeated the atmosphere of this workshop. These researchers, many of whom had never met before, are now colleagues, and are continuing to collaborate on research to this day, and probably beyond. Scholars from various positions and countries have chosen to work together in the spirit of cooperation to make the ideas presented in this book come to fruition. At press time, we do not know if Ukraine will become a NATO member or not. In any case, the editors wish to thank the NATO Science Committee for their funding, encouragement, and work in making this workshop a reality. We hope that the spirit of cooperation and intellectual curiosity that was so lively at the conference will encourage the reader in the perusal of this work.

• Environmental
• GIS
• Geoinformation
• Geoinformationssysteme
• NATO
• Ordination
• Science
• Security
• Sub-Series C
• Vegetation
• classification
• geographic data
• remote sensing

• DePaul University, Chicago, USA

  Ashley Morris

• National Agricultural University of Ukraine, Ukraine

  Svitlana Kokhan

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