Program
Programme of the Nordic Forum for Geostatistics 2007
Hosted by Statistics Finland on 19-21 September 2007
Venue: Statistics Finland, Työpajankatu 13, Helsinki The European Grid Club Meeting: 2nd floor, Sattuma The seminar: 10th floor, conference room
Wednesday 19 September
8.30 – 9.00 Registration to the meeting and to the seminar
The European Grid Club Meeting
9.00 – 9.15 Opening of the meeting and selection of a chair and a secretary Short introduction to the agenda
9.15 – 10.15 Section 1: European Forum for Geostatistics
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee
10.30 – 11.30 Section 2: The European Grid Club project and the Population Grid Map for Europe
11.30 – 12.00 Section 3: Work groups (task forces) and project proposals for subprojects
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
Nordic Forum for Geostatistics seminar
12.00 – 13.00 Registration to the seminar for those who are not participating in the grid club meeting
13.00 – 13.20 Opening addresses of the seminar
Mr. Jari Tarkoma, Director of Population Statistics, Statistics Finland Mrs. Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Chief Adviser, Statistics Finland
13.20 – 17.00 Session 1: Geostatistics in the INSPIRE and national frameworks
Session organiser: Mrs. Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland (e-mail: marja.tammilehto-luode@stat.fi)
13.20 – 13.30 Opening the session
13.30 – 14.00 Daniele Rizzi, Eurostat: INSPIRE and geostatistics. Abstract
14.00 – 14.30 Arvid Lillethun, Norwegian Mapping and Cadaster Authority: Views on practical implementation of INSPIRE themes related to geostatistics
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee
15.00 – 15.30 Lars Backer, Statistics Sweden: A portal for GeoStatistics at Statistics Sweden
15.30 – 16.30 The national reports: INSPIRE implementation work in participating countries (5-10 minutes each country)
16.30 – 17.00 Discussion and summary
17.00 – 21.00 Sauna Reception
Thursday 20 September
9.00 – 12.30 Session 2. Small area statistics
Session organiser: Mr. Erik Sommer, Statistics Denmark (e-mail: eso@dst.dk)
9.00 – 9.10 Opening the session
9.10 – 9.30 Johnny Sehlin and Kjell Ylivainio, Statistics Sweden: Data from the Map -application using Microsoft MapPoint and grid-statistics for statistics on user-defined areas.
9.30 – 9.50 Kari Oinonen, Finnish Environment Institute: Monitoring system for changes in urban structure. Abstract
9.50 – 10.10 Trine Haagensen, Statistics Norway: Small area index mapping and analysis. Abstract Paper
10.10 – 10.30 Margrete Steinnes, Statistics Norway: Shore zone statistics using 3D. Abstract Paper
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 11.20 Niek van Leeuwen, Statistics Netherlands: Delineating population cluster in the Netherlands, grid and blob method. Abstract Paper
11.20 – 11.40 Igor Kuzma, Statistics Slovenia: Process of producing the grid data and the grid data dissemination in Slovenia. Abstract
11.40 – 12.00 Erik Sommer, Statistics Denmark: Presentation of Danish method to take care of confidentiality providing statistical data on grids. Abstract
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion and summary
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 16.15 Session 3. GI infrastructure and use of spatial database
Session organiser: Mr. Ekkehard Petri, Eurostat (e-mail: ekkehard.petri@ec.europa.eu)
13.30 – 13.40 Opening the session
13.40 – 14.00 Jari Nieminen, Statistics Finland: Use of spatial data in the new production environment and in a data warehouse
14.00 – 14.20 Rina Tammisto, Statistics Finland: Producing grid data in the new production environment. Abstract
14.20 – 14.40 Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Statistics Norway: Municipality to State – geostatistics
14.40 – 15.15 Coffee
15.15 – 15.45 Arvid Lillethun, Norwegian Mapping and Cadaster Authority: Metadata – content, registration, services
15.45 – 16.15 Discussion and summary
16.15 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 17.45 Session 4. The poster session
Session organiser: Ms. Ulla-Maarit Saarinen, Statistics Finland (e-mail: ulla-maarit.saarinen@stat.fi)
In the poster session each poster may be individually presented by their author (5 – 10 minutes each poster).
Posters:
- Margrete Steinnes and Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Statistics Norway: Geostatistics in Norway. Presentation
- Trine Haagensen and Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Statistics Norway: Geostatistics at Statistics Norway
- Pierre Jamagne, Statistics Belgium: Statistical districts, the smallest standard territorial units used by Statistics Belgium fot dissemination
- Werner Meyer, Swiss Federal Statistical Office: Maps using grids of varying size
- Michael Berg Rasmussen, Statistics Denmark: Calculating commuting distances in Denmark
The award for best poster was given to ‘Calculating commuting distances in Denmark’. The reasons for the award were that the poster gives a clear picture of the topic and presents a good example of the workflow processes in producing spatial statistics.
Get-together in the evening (‘off-the-programme’)
Friday 21 September
9.15 – 12.30 Session 5. Web map applications
Session organiser: Mrs. Marianne Vik Dysterud, Statistics Norway (e-mail: marianne.vik.dysterud@ssb.no)
9.15 – 9.25 Opening the session
9.25 – 9.55 Ekkehard Petri, Eurostat: Tables, Graphs, Maps – the new interactive user interface to Eurostat data.
9.55 – 10.25 Johan Stålnacke, Statistics Sweden: Open source WMS as an alternative. Abstract
10.25 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 11.30 Marianne Vik Dysterud, Statistics Norway: PX-Map2 – highlights and a demonstration of the map module launched from Statistics Norway Statbank Paper
11.30 – 12.00 Jussi Arpalahti, Statistics Finland: Implementing web map applications in different services – experiences from election map applications
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion and summary
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30 Reflection for the future
Chair: Mrs. Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland
13.30 – 13.40 A Norwegian initiative to revise a land use classification (Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Statistics Norway)
13.40 – 13.50 Nordic Forum for Geostatistics – introduction (Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland)
13.50 – 14.00 The European Grid Club – introduction (Lars Backer, Statistics Sweden)
14.00 – 14.30 Discussion
14.30 – 14.45 Closing the seminar