Programme

Day 1: Tuesday, 05.10.2010

Preconference Working Session

Chair: Dr Udo Maack, INSPIRE TWG, Germany

09:00 - 12.00

GEOSTAT and INSPIRE TWG joint working session

12:00 – 12:30

Registration 

First day of the conference introduces the importance of geo-statistics in the decision making process in local, regional, European and Global level. The statistics linked with the geography serves as a basis for environmental planning, sustainable development, infrastructure planning and business development in many economic sectors. The ESSnet project "GEOSTAT - representing census data in a European population grid” and the need for the gridded population data in the global level will be discussed.

Opening of the Conference

Chair: Mrs Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, Statistics Estonia

12:30 - 12:35

Practical information, Mrs Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, Statistics Estonia

12:35 - 12:50

Welcome speech from the Director General of Statistics Estonia, Mr Priit Potisepp, Statistics Estonia

12:50 - 13:10

The past and the present: General Overview of EFGS and ESSnet GEOSTAT project, the President of EFGS, Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Statistics Norway

13:10 - 13:30

The Next step: Presentation of the GEOSTAT 1B project call, Mr Daniele Rizzi, EUROSTAT, Luxemburg

13.30 - 14.30

Lunch for all participants

Geostatistics in a Global perspective

Chair: Mrs Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, Statistics Estonia

14:30 - 14:50

Keynote speech: Current directions in population GIS, Prof. David Martin, School of Geography, University of Southampton, UK

14:50 - 15:10

Keynote speech: The changing color of data: Emerging opportunities in geostatistics for decision support, Dr. Budhendra  Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geographic Information Science and Technology Group , USA

15:10 - 15:30

Keynote speech:  Applications of gridded socioeconomic data sets for elucidating human-environment interactions, Mr Alex de Sherbinin, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, CIESIN – The Earth Institute at Columbia University, USA

15:30 - 15:50

Keynote speech: Vision: From  European Forum of Geostatiscs - EFGS towards Global Forum for GeoStatistics - GFGS, the Executive Director of EFGS, Mr Lars H. Backer, Sweden 

15:50 - 16:10

Summing up the first day, Mrs Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, Statistics Estonia

Social Events

17.00 - 18.30

Historical Old Town Working Tour. Costs: 125 EEK *

Estonia´s capital, Tallinn, is the oldest capital in the Northern Europe.  The city was first recorded by Arab cartographer – al-Idrisi, back in 1154.  Tallinn Old Town is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site and is often referred to as the “medieval pearl of Europe“. Tallinn has managed to preserve the completeness and structure of its medieval and Hanseatic origin. Most of the cobblestone streets and properties, important state and church buildings, citizens’ and merchants’ residences, barns and warehouses dating back as far as to the 11th century, are preserved in their original form.  During an hour guided walking tour you will feel the milieu of the most intact medieval city in Europe.

* The entrance to the pre-registered Social Events can be purchased upon arrival and during the breaks at the conference reception desk. Only cash payments in EEK (Estonian kroons) prior to the event will be accepted. The places are reserved for pre-registered participants only.

19.00

Dinner “Get together” for all participants

Concert: "A Musical Journey into Traditions", Siiri Sisask

Siiri Sisask's performance promises to be very exciting. In her programme entitled "A Musical Journey into Traditions" she sings folk songs of various peoples in various different languages.

Siiri Sisask is regarded as one of Estonia's most compelling singers whose voice, in its range and technique, has surprised audiences in Estonia and abroad. She has written many of her own songs and composed instrumental music. She has played a number of roles in films and theatre and has written fairy tales for children as well as poetry. She has taken part in exhibitions with her oil paintings and is also actively involved in handicrafts. She founded the charity "Saagu Valgus" (Let There Be Light), which has helped to eliminate the legacy of Soviet lighting at Estonian school grounds. Siiri Sisask has also procured musical instruments for schools with her special fund in order to create the best possible music-making opportunities for children living in Estonia.

Day 2 : Wednesday, 06.10.2010

Session 1

GEOSTAT WP 1: User needs,

Chair: Mrs Ingrid Kaminger, Statistics Austria

The main challenges in producing harmonised gridded population dataset are the differences in national geographic projections, grid coding systems, the data interoperability between statistics and spatial data, the different time spans of updating demographic data, data quality, confidentiality issues and others. One of the main goals of GEOSTAT project is to find a best solution for users from one hand and for gridded population data producers from other hand. Therefore, the session “User needs” main emphasis will be put on presenting the user perspectives on their needs and on analyse of user needs for providing technically sound data specification for a harmonised transnational grid, integrating population statistics variables across national borders in Europe.

09:00 - 09:10

Status report WP 1 ”User Needs”, Mrs Ingrid Kaminger, Statistics Austria

09:10 - 09:30

Analyse of geostatistics user needs,  Mrs Ingrid Kaminger, Statistics Austria

09:30 - 09:50

Geospatial data in EEA assessments – status and requirements, Mr Andrus Meiner, European Environment Agency, Denmark

09:50 - 10:10

Nordic accessibility index, Mr Erik Fransson, The Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, Sweden

10:10 - 10:30

A new urban-rural typology, developed using grid data.,  Mr Hugo Poelman,  European Commission, DG Regional Policy, REGIO-GIS,  Belgium

10.30 - 10.50

EFGS as a Market Place , Mr Erik Sommer, EFGS Expert Group for Business Models, Denmark

10.50 - 11.30

Tea & Coffee Break

Session 2

GEOSTAT WP 2: Geostatistics

Chair: Mrs Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland

The main objective of the Geostat project is to provide a system of small area statistics liberated from administrative areas that may be used for spatial analysis in cross border situations. We will do this using a system of discrete grids. Ideally this should be based on point information but will in practice, for most types of socio-cultural and economic data, be based on disaggregation techniques as well. Thus, there are three types of approaches that countries adopt. Aggregation (from smaller grids or points), Disaggregation (from administrative areas) or Hybrid method (a mixture of both). The main emphasise of this session is to assess the opportunities for integrating the results of the national censuses into one harmonised dataset using these different approaches.

11:30 - 11:40

Status report WP 2 ”Geostatistics”, Mrs Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland

11:40 - 12:00

Population and Housing Census GIS in Estonia, Mrs Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, Statistics Estonia

12:00 - 12:20

Population and Housing Census GIS in Norway, Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch and Mr Bjørn Thorsdalen, Statistics Norway

12:20 - 12:40

Agricultural Census and GIS, Ms Geir Inge Gundersen, Statistics Norway

12:40 - 13:00

Construction of gridded population and poverty data sets from different data sources, Mr Alex de Sherbinin, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, CIESIN – The Earth Institute at Columbia University, USA

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch for all participants

Session 2 continues

14:00 - 14:20

Geostatistics and disaggregating models, Mr Jean-Luc Lipatz, INSEE, France

14:20 - 14:40

Gridded Population – new data sets for an improved disaggregation approach, Dr. Kalus Steinnocher , AIT Austrian Institute of Technology,  Mrs Ingrid Kaminger, Statistics Austria,  M. Köstl , AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria, Mr J. Weichselbaum, GeoVille Information Systems, Austria

14:40 - 15:00

Accuracy of built-up area mapping in Europe from the perspective of population surface modelling, Dr. Pavol Hurbanek, Peter Atkinson, University of Southampton, School of Geography, UK; Robert Pazur, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography, Slovakia; Konstantin Rosina, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences

15:00 - 15:20

A population grid for Spain: Experiences in assembling population and cartographic data from publicly available sources,  Prof. Francisco Goerlich, University of Valencia,  Isidro Cantarino, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

15.20  - 16.00

Tea & Coffee Break

Session 3

GEOSTAT WP 3: Infrastructure,

Chair: Mr Niek van Leeuwen, Statistics Netherlands

Infrastructure means the structure behind the data, not the data itself. It is the roads rather than the traffic on it of the pipelines rather than the water or sewage that is transported in it. We may talk about the real infrastructure (websites, servers, etc.) and virtual infrastructures (standards, concepts, etc.). In this context we are talking about both of these.

16.00 - 16.20

Status report WP 3 ”Infrastructure”,, Mr Niek van Leeuwen, Statistics Netherlands

16:20 - 16:40

The Grid Paper, the President of EFGS Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Norway, the Executive Director of EFGS Mr Lars H. Backer, Sweden 

16:40 - 17:00

Grids as a part of the INSPIRE data specifications ‘Statistical Units`,  Dr. Udo Maack, INSPIRE TWG, Germany

17:00 - 17:20

Geostatistics and Metadata, Mr Niek van Leeuwen, Statistics Netherlands

17:20 - 17:40

Summing up the second day,  the Executive Director of EFGS, Mr Lars H. Backer, Sweden 

17:40 - 17:45

Practical information, Mrs Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, Estonia

19:00

Hansaetic Dinner for “EFGS League”, Costs: 600 EEK *

Location: VANA TURG 1, TALLINN

The dinner “EFGS League” will take place in the Restaurant “Olde Hansa”, famous for Medieval International Cuisine, in the near vicinity of Town Hall of Reval. Reval was the name of Tallinn in the Middle Ages. The food and service will follow the Medieval traditions in the 13th – 17th centuries when  Estonia belonged to the Hansaetic League.  There are many similarities between the  EFGS and ancient Hansaetic League as the mobility of  excellent ideas and experience, new initiatives, engaged talented persons, intern national co-operation, establishment of the networks of excellence just to name a few. Therefore the name of the Dinner is” EFGS League “.

The dinner will be a unique experience to feel how the most important guests were welcomed by the City Government in the Middle Ages.

We will have Grand Merchants’ Feast. This is the opportunity to enjoy the Medieval Party in the right atmosphere with a good and contemporary company.

* The entrance to the pre-registered Social Events can be purchased upon arrival and during the breaks at the conference reception desk. Only cash payments in EEK (Estonian kroons) prior to the event will be accepted. The places are reserved for pre-registered participants only.

Day 3: Thursday, 07.10.2010

Session 4

Innovative Technologies and Methods in Small Area Statistics

Chair: Prof. David Martin, School of Geography, University of Southampton, UK

The last day of the conference concentrates on the innovative technologies, methods and ideas in the field of geostatistics and small area statistics. Additionally, further need of research topics will be discussed.

09:00 - 09:20

Progress report: 24-hour gridded population models, Prof. David Martin, School of Geography, University of Southampton, UK

09:20 – 09:40

Using the 2011 Census to build a new geography for workplace statistics,  Mr. Ian Coady, Office for National Statistics, UK

09:40 - 10:00

Characterizing High-Resolution Population Distributions: a LandScan Experience, Mr. Eddie Bright and Dr. Budhendra Bhaduri, Geographical Information Science and Technology Group, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

10:00 - 10:20

Mobile telephones and mobile positioning data as source for population statistics, Prof. Rein Ahas, University of Tartu, Mr Erki Saluveer, Positium, Estonia

10:20 - 10:40

Spatial Interpolation of Passive Mobile Positioning Data to Administrative Hierarchies and Grid-based Networks,    Mr  Margus Tiru, Positium, Mr Anto Aasa, University of Tartu, Estonia

10:40 - 11:20

Coffee & Tea Break

Session 4 continues

11:20 - 11:40

Rules, techniques and processes to design the enumeration areas to collect and disseminate Italian census data, Mrs Pina Grazia Ticca, ISTAT, Italy

11:40 - 12:00

Automatic Analyzing and Visualisation of Settelement Development on base of Topographic Maps by SEMENTA®-CHANGE, Dr.-Ing. Gotthard Meinel, Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development (IOER), Germany

12:00 - 12:20

New spatial dimension and applicability of old census and administrative data, Mr Igor Kuzma, Statistics Slovenia

12:20 - 12:40

A proposal for Brazilian 2010 Census dissemination, Ms Maria do Carmo Dias Bueno, IBGE/CDDI/COPES, Brazil

12.40 - 13.00

Statistics on small areas in Denmark with special attention to urban areas, Mr Michael Berg Rasmussen, Demarks Statistics, Denmark

13:00 - 14:20

Lunch for all participants

Session 5

Round Table Discussion

Session Chair: the President of EFGS, Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Statistics Norway

14:20 - 15:00

The Global initiative,  the Executive Director of EFGS, Mr Lars H. Backer, Sweden 

15:00 - 15:40

Business Model, What are the best solutions for distrubuting the grid based statistics to the customers? Mr Erik Sommer, EFGS Expert Group for Business Models, Denmark

15.40 - 16.00

Coffee & Tea Break

16.00 - 16.20

Follow up programme, the Executive Director of EFGS, Mr Lars H. Backer, Sweden 

16:20 – 16:30

Introducing next workshop In Portugal, Ms Ana Maria Santos, Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Portugal

16:30 - 16:45 

Closing the conference, Ms Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, Estonia