Presentations

Wednesday  |  Thursday  |  Friday

Day 1: Wednesday, October 24, 2012

12:00 - 12:30 Opening of the Conference 
Chair: Jaroslav Kraus, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic

The past and present of the EFGS project
Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, EFGS President, Norway
13:30 - 15:30 Keynote Session
Chair: Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden

Part 1: The Vision Section
In search of a Shared Vision
Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden
Part 2: The Production Section
Statistics, Geodata and Our Way to Geoinformation
Zdeňka Udržalová, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic
Gridded register-based data for detail spatio-temporal monitoring and modelling. Vision of data harmonisation and integration
Jiří Horák, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Comparison of bottom-up and top-down methods used to create grid data from the Population and Housing Census 2011
Jaroslav Kraus, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic
Part 3: The Management Section
Towards a better integration of statistics and geography - an ESS strategy
Ekkehard Petri, European Commission, Eurostat, Luxembourg

Day 2: Thursday, October 25, 2012

09:00 - 11:00 Work Session 1: Production and Use of Geostatistics from the Global Perspective
Chair: Vít Voženílek, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

Terra Populus: Integrated Data on Population and Environment
Tracy Kugler, University of Minnesota, USA
Methods of Reconciling Geographic Boundaries in Integrated Research
Kytt MacManus, Columbia University - CIESIN, USA
Describing Mexican Population: GIS in Census - Data Dissemination and Making Decisions
Carole Schmitz, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico
National Dwelling Inventory
Elsa Resano, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico
Geovisualisation of Statistical Data within Spatial Data Infrastructure
Vít Voženílek, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
11:30 - 15:50 Work Session 2: Production and Use of Geostatistics from the European Perspective
Chair: Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland, Finland

Harmonised population time-series (1990-2010) for Europe by means of the OLAP technology
Roger Milego, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia
Detailed population distribution maps for Europe´s cities
Filipe Batista e Silva, European Commission, Joint Research Center, Italy
Towards indicators of proximity to services in Europe's major cities
Hugo Poelman, European Commission, DG Regional Policy, Belgium
LUCAS (Land Use / Cover Area Frame Statistical Survey)
Miloš Sedláček, GEODIS, Czech Republic
Top-down population density grid based on European land monitoring services
Konstantin Rosina/Pavol Hurbánek/Peter M. Atkinson, Slovak Academy of Sciences/Catholic University in Ružomberok/University of Southampton, Slovakia/United Kingdom
Market watch/Business report - Grid statistics
Erik Sommer, Statistics Denmark, EFGS Consultant, Denmark
An ideal way of integrating the spatial dimension into the statistical production chain - Does it exist?
Ola Nordbeck/Arslan Ahmedov, Statistics Norway/National Statistical Institute, Norway/Bulgaria
Workflow to create grid data
Marja Tammilehto-Luode, Statistics Finland
16:20 - 17:40 Work Session 3: Production and Use of Geostatistics from the National Perspective
Chair: Igor Kuzma, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slo venia

Topic 1: Dissemination issue of small areas
Statistical confidentiality in small area statistics dissemination
Igor Kuzma, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia
Applying disclosure control on average values when publishing by different small areas
Niek van Leeuwen, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Netherlands
Small statistical units in Spain: Enumeration Districts, Nomenclátor and Grid
Ignacio Duque, National Statistical Institute, Spain

Day 3: Friday, October 26, 2012

09:00 - 13:00 Work Session 3: Production and Use of Geostatistics from the National Perspective

Topic 2: Application of grids in land use statistics and modeling
Chair: Jiří Hiess, Czech Association for Geoinformation (CAGI), Czech Republic

High Resolution Land Use Information by combined Analysis of Digital Landscape Models and Statistical Data Sets
Tobias Krüger, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Germany
Urban Morphological Zones for Spain: Urban indicators from an Object Oriented Land Cover data base and a population grid
Francisco Goerlich, University of Valencia, Spain
What's going on out there? - Gridded data for detection of pressure on land use
Jerker Moström, Statistics Sweden, Sweden
Topic 3: Dissemination of Population and Housing Census 2011
Chair: Jaroslav Kraus, Czech Statistical Office, Czech Republic

Population Census and European Neonatal Health Statistics
Vilni Verner Holst Bloch, Statistics Norway, Norway
Exploiting the potential for GeoStatistics in the Republic of Ireland
Dermot Corcoran, Central Statistics Office, Ireland
Geostatistics Portal in Poland
Amelia Wardzińska-Sharif, Central Statistical Office of Poland, Poland
A Population grid for the Republic of Kosovo
Idriz Shala, Kosovo Agency of Statistics, Kosovo
GIS in Croatian Bureau of Statistics
Branko Crkvenčić, Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Croatia
14:00 - 15:30 Closing Session: The EFGS 2012 Prague Declaration
Chair: Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden

Introduction by chair
Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden
Proposal for the EFGS 2012 Prague Declaration
Ekkehard Petri, European Commission, Eurostat, Luxembourg
In search of the Way Forward
Lars H. Backer, EFGS Executive Director, Sweden