1. European Forum for Geostatistics
The EFGS and its GEOSTAT project – To build a system of small area statistics to serve as a common foundation for Geostatistics in Europe.
Why?
EFGS Geostat ESSnet Project meeting
Luxembourg 10th – 11th of March 2011

2. Cause for concern

3. Evolutionary approach
Nature vs. Culture:
Artificial Evolution; Develop the manmade (culture is artificial)
Artificial Virtual systems
Artificial Real systems
Natural Evolution; Adapt to the natural (man is nature)
Natural Virtual systems
Natural Real systems

4. ”Navigare necesse est”?
Earth a Man Environmental System (MES)
Not sustainable conflict between the artificial and the natural
Mans (global culture) must change
The artificial evolution astray?
Private specific (selfish) interests
Public general (altruistic) interests
Management to put it right!
If you cannot Describe it, you cannot Manage it.
If you cannot manage it you cannot improove it

5. Praxis: Projects A: A Description of the Present (model)
Current descriptions of the manmade Environment, Logos
Current descriptions of the natural Environment, Physis
B: A Vision or the Future (model)
Visions for the manmade Environment, Logos
Scenarios for the natural Environment, Physis
C: A Path leading from A to B (process)
The manmade Environment, Evolution of Logos
(Artificial evolution, what we may change)
The natural Environment, Evolution of Physis
(Natural evolution, what we must adapt to)

6. Projects as Darwin Machines
2. Design
3. Build
1. Analyse
4. Use
Future
Past
PRAXIS
SCIENCE
Past: RESEARCH
The present is the to a great extent the consquence of previous actions
Present : ACTION Short time actions to ensure the satisfaction of current needs
Future: VISIONS Long term actions to ensure desierable future state of MES

7. Think Global act Local Six scale intervals from local to global:
Local concern, Local response
District concern, District response
Regional concern, Regional response
National concern, National response
European concern, European response
Global concern, Global resonse
A hierarchial system of concern
A hierarchial system of response

8. Three Tier principle Regional projects National projects
District concern, District response (describe consequences)
Regional concern, Regional response
National concern, National response (describe consequences)
National projects
Regional concern, Regional response (describe consequences)
National concern, National response
Global concern, Global resonse (describe consequences)
European projects
European concern, European response

9. Project descriptions The Narrative (describe the Path)
Conventional Website
Reference literature (ONC+R) ( reference library)
A integration of compound objects (model the system)
Semantic description from Narrative provides Object Name and Code (ONC)
Attribute Objects (ONC+A)
Feature Objects (ONC+F)
Method Objects (ONC+M)
Complex Objects = ONC+A+F+M

10. The ecological approach
Real Systems– the Environmental system (model)
1 Set of layers: Natural Environments
Layer 1
Layer 2 ….
1 Set of layers: Artificial Environments
Virtual Systems– the Socioeconomic system (model)
1 Set of layers: Economic systems (Day-time population)
1 Set of layers: Social systems (Night-time population)

11. Statistics: Both Grids & Blobs
To see the forest in spite of the trees, and vice versa
Two views of the Forest
The Blob view: Geographics describe the forest
The Grid view: Geostatistics describe the trees
Grids for detecting patterns with tree variables
Neutral pattern, covers land and sea
Patterns recognisable over scales
Blobs for delineating Forests for comparison
Accounting practices
Benchmarking

12. Our task: EU poulation on km Grids
National FGS Projects?
From National INSPIRE annexes to a National GIISS
Improved National Statistical system to serve a GIISS
National bottom-up Taskforces (and projects)
National top-down Taskforces (and projects)
National integration Taskforces (and projects)
European FGS Projects
From European INSPIRE annexes to a National GIISS
Improved National Statistical system to support a GIISS
An European bottom-up Project (the EFGS project)
An European top-down Project (an European Landscan?)
An European integration Project (a hybrid dataset?)
Global FGS Projects?
From an European initiative to a Global GIISS
Improved National Statistical system
A Global bottom-up Project
A Global top-down Project (the landscan project, SEDAC)
A Global integration Project

13. In a nutshell Statistics: Grids & Blobs Use: Pattern Recognition
Grids for spatial analysis
Blobs for benchmarking
Use: Pattern Recognition
Patterns of features (features)
Patterns of states (statistics)
GGIISS: Integrated datasets
An integrated description of MES
To be built from the INSPIRE annexes

14. Thank You! lars.backer@mdmapping.se Lars Henrik Backer
Executive Director
European Forum for Geostatistics
Valhallavägen 145
11531 Stockholm Sweden
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