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Presentation of the EFGS on INSPIRE Conference 2016
On 26-30 September 2016 the annual INSPIRE Conference took place in Barcelona. The main theme of the conference was "INSPIRing sustainable development". During the 3rd plenary session "INSPIRE by thematic networks," President of the European Forum of Geography and...
GEOSTAT 3 project has started!
On 15 and 16 February 2017 in Stockholm the Geostat 3 kick-off meeting, organised by Statistics Sweden took place. The meeting was attended by delegates from Eurostat and eight National Statistical Institutions, German Mapping and Cadastral Agency which participate in...
Population figures added to Copernicus Urban Atlas data
A recent JRC Technical Report describes a method to downscale residential population data to the level of Copernicus Urban Atlas polygons. Urban Atlas 2012 is a powerful geographical dataset that describes land use/land cover at high spatial resolution for nearly 700...
ENACT project interim report just published
ENACT (“ENhancing ACTivity and population mapping”) is a JRC Exploratory Research Project involving various units at the JRC, and spanning 2 years (2016-2017). Current knowledge of population distribution is still very limited even for Europe. Existing spatial...
EFGS 2016 conference presentations available now
We would like to inform that all presentations, conference programme and abstracts book are available now at EFGS.info.