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?