Programme and presentations for the European Forum for Geography and Statistics 2012
The EFGS Conference was organized and hosted by on the 24th-26th October 2012.
The motto is: “If you cannot describe it, you cannot manage it”
Program
| EFGS Conference 2012, Prague | |||||
| Wednesday, 24 October 2012 | |||||
| Timetable | Subject | Speaker | Abstract | Presentation | Paper |
| 11:00 | Registration for the Conference | ||||
| 12:00 | |||||
| 12:00-12:30 | OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE | Chair: Mr. Jaroslav Kraus, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic | |||
| Welcome speech | Mr. Jaroslav Kraus, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic | ||||
| The past and present of the EFGS project | Mr. Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, EFGS President, Norway | Presentation | |||
| Eurostat and the future of the GEOSTAT project | Mr. Ekkehard Petri, European Commission, Eurostat, Luxembourg | ||||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch for all participants | ||||
| Keynote session | |||||
| 13:30 – 13:40 | Introduction by chair | Chair: Mr. Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden | |||
| 13:40 – 14:00 | In search of a Shared Vision | Mr. Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden | Presentation | ||
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Statistics, Geodata and Our Way to Geoinformation | Ms. Zdeňka Udržalová, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic | Presentation | ||
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Gridded register-based data for detail spatio-temporal monitoring and modelling. Vision of data harmonisation and integration, | Mr. Jiří Horák, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic | Presentation | ||
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Comparison of bottom-up and top-down methods used to create grid data from the Population and Housing Census 2011, | Mr. Jaroslav Kraus, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic | Presentation | ||
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Towards a better integration of statistics and geography – an ESS strategy | Mr. Ekkehard Petri, European Commission, Eurostat, Luxembourg | Presentation | ||
| 15:20 – 15:30 | Summing up by chair and presentation of the draft for a Prague Declaration | Chair: Mr. Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden | |||
| Thursday, 25 October 2012 | |||||
| Timetable | Subject | Speaker | Abstract | Presentation | Paper |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Session 1: Production and Use of Geostatistics from the Global Perspective | ||||
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Introduction by chair | Mr. Vít Voženílek, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic | |||
| 09:10 – 09:30 | Terra Populus: Integrated Data on Population and Environment | Ms. Tracy Kugler, University of Minnesota, USA (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Methods of Reconciling Geographic Boundaries in Integrated Research | Mr. Kytt MacManus, Columbia University – CIESIN, USA (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | Describing Mexican Population: GIS in Census – Data Dissemination and Making Decisions | Ms. Carole Schmitz, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | National Dwelling Inventory | Ms. Elsa Resano, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Geovisualisation of Statistical Data within Spatial Data Infrastructure | Mr. Vít Voženílek, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic | Presentation | ||
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Summing up and closing down of session | Mr. Vít Voženílek, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic | |||
| 09:00 – 15:50 | Session 2: Production and Use of Geostatistics from the European Perspective | ||||
| 11:30 – 11:40 | Introduction by chair | Chair: Ms. Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland, Finland | |||
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Harmonised population time-series (1990-2010) for Europe by means of the OLAP technology | Mr. Roger Milego, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Detailed population distribution maps for Europe´s cities | Mr. Filipe Batista e Silva, European Commission, Joint Research Center, Italy (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Towards indicators of proximity to services in Europe’s major cities | Mr. Hugo Poelman, European Commission, DG Regional Policy, Belgium (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | The new rural-urban typology: Is it also suitable for lower territorial units? | Ms. Hana Bednářová/Mr. Petr Klauda, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic | |||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch for all participants | ||||
| 14:00 – 14:20 | LUCAS (Land Use / Cover Area Frame Statistical Survey) | Mr. Miloš Sedláček, GEODIS, Czech Republic (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Top-down population density grid based on European land monitoring services | Mr. Konstantin Rosina/Mr. Pavol Hurbánek, Slovak Academy of Sciences/Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Market watch/Business report – Grid statistics | Mr. Erik Sommer, Statistics Denmark, EFGS Consultant, Denmark (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | An ideal way of integrating the spatial dimension into the statistical production chain – Does it exist? | Mr. Ola Nordbeck/Mr. Arslan Ahmedov, Statistics Norway/Bulgaria (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Workflow to create grid data | Ms. Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland | Presentation | ||
| 15:40 – 15:50 | Summing up and closing down of session | Ms. Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland, Finland | |||
| 15:50 – 16:20 | Tea & Coffee break | ||||
| 16.20-17.40 | Session 3: Production and Use of Geostatistics from the National Perspective | ||||
| Topic 1 Dissemination issues of small areas | |||||
| 16:20 – 16:30 | Introduction by chair | Chair: Mr. Igor Kuzma, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia | |||
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Statistical confidentiality in small area statistics dissemination, | Mr. Igor Kuzma, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Applying disclosure control on average values when publishing by different small areas | Mr. Niek van Leeuwen, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Netherlands (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 17:10 – 17:30 | Small statistical units in Spain: Enumeration Districts, Nomenclátor and Grid | Mr. Ignacio Duque, National Statistical Institute, Spain (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 17:30 – 17:40 | Summing up and closing down of topic, | Mr. Igor Kuzma, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia | |||
| Friday, 26 October 2012 | |||||
| Timetable | Subject | Speaker | Abstract | Presentation | Paper |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Session 3: Production and Use of Geostatistics from the National Perspective |
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| Topic 2 Application of grids in land use statistics and modeling | |||||
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Introduction by chair | Chair: Mr. Jiří Hiess, Czech Association for Geoinformation (CAGI), Czech Republic | |||
| 09:10 – 09:30 | High Resolution Land Use Information by combined Analysis of Digital Landscape Models and Statistical Data Sets | Mr. Tobias Krüger, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Germany | Presentation | ||
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Urban Morphological Zones for Spain: Urban indicators from an Object Oriented Land Cover data base and a population grid | Mr. Francisco Goerlich, University of Valencia, Spain (abstract) | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | What’s going on out there? – Gridded data for detection of pressure on land use | Mr. Jerker Moström, Statistics Sweden, Sweden | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 10:10 – 10:20 | Summing up and closing down of topic | Mr. Jiří Hiess, CAGI, Czech Republic | |||
| Topic 3, Dissemination of Population and Housing Census 2011 | Chair: Mr. Jaroslav Kraus, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic | ||||
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Population Census and European Neonatal Health Statistics | Mr. Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Statistics Norway, Norway | Abstract | Presentation | Report |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Exploiting the potential for GeoStatistics in the Republic of Ireland | Mr. Dermot Corcoran, Central Statistics Office, Ireland | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Geostatistics Portal in Poland | Ms. Amelia Wardzińska-Sharif, Central Statistical Office of Poland, Poland | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | A Population grid for the Republic of Kosovo | Mr. Idriz Shala, Kosovo Agency of Statistics, Kosovo | Presentation | ||
| 12:30 – 12:50 | GIS in Croatian Bureau of Statistics | Mr. Branko Crkvenčić, Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Croatia | Abstract | Presentation | |
| 12:50 – 13:00 | Summing up and closing down of topic | Mr. Jaroslav Kraus, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic | |||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch for all participants | ||||
| Closing session, The EFGS 2012 Prague Declaration | |||||
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Introduction by chair | Chair: Mr. Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden | Presentation | ||
| 14:10 – 14:20 | Proposal for the EFGS 2012 Prague Declaration | EFGS steering committee | Presentation | ||
| 14:20 – 14:30 | In search of the Way Forward | Mr. Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden | Presentation | ||
| 14:30 – 15:10 | Panel Discussion | Table of experts | |||
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Summing up and taking our leave | Mr. Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, EFGS President, Norway | |||
| 15:20 – 15:30 | Closing speech | Mr. Štěpán Moravec, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic | |||
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea & Coffee break | ||||
| Post Conference | |||||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Post Conference for all interested participants from the Conference | Chair: Mr. Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, EFGS, President, Norway | |||
| Lessons learned from the EFGS 2012 Prague Conference and how to prepare the EFGS 2013 Sofia Conference | |||||
| Status of the GEOSTAT 1B project and next steps towards the mid-way report | |||||
| How to involve voluntary contributions to the GEOSTAT project and the EFGS | |||||
| Planning steps towards the GFGS 2014 Rio de Janeiro Conference | |||||