1. What are the priorities?
The GEOSTAT project
The Geostat IB project
What are the priorities?
EuroStat Working Party on GIS for Statistics
Luxembourg 8th – 9th of March 2010
The Geostat project
Lars Henrik Backer
Executive Director
European Forum for Geostatistics
Valhallavägen 145
11531 Stockholm Sweden
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2. Project: Geostat IA
Geostat I A ( ): Focus on Visions, Precisions
WP1:Vision
Vision for User needs from a data users and a data producers perspective.
WP2: Data
Establish foundation for Iterative evolution of the Essnet dataset
WP3: Infrastructure
Visions for infrastructures
WP4: Distribution, dissemination exploitation
Establish channels for direct communication between users and producers
WP5: Examples
None proposed for this stage of the project

3. Aim Plot the results of the EU 2010-11 population census to km grids.
EFGS shall, as a formal association of NSI’s, in close cooperation with EUROSTAT (as a compliment to aggregations to administrative areas) in a form and structure that responds to real user needs; over the internet, through publications and direct communication, present an overview of the EU census on km grids along with maps, diagrams, tables, narratives and practical illustrations of its benefits and practical use.

4. An Iterative Method Preparation phase: Geostat initiatives
Base all work on the results from the Geostat initiative concluded by (Feb. 2010)
Iteration 1: Geostat Essnet I A&B
Most if not all components in a tentative embryonic form in place by the end of Year 2 (Feb. 2012).
Iteration 2: Geostat Essnet II A&B
Mature the infrastructure, improve the datasets, illustrations, dissemination technology by the end of Year 4(Feb. 2014)

5. Obstacles A new disaggregation strategy
That the potential use of the corine landcover combined with NUTS statistics for disaggregation is exhausted.
A distributed webb portal for WSS
That we need a dedicated portal for geostatistics for dissemination and experiments towards a true WSS (Webb Statistical Services).
A set of good illustrations
For the efficient DDE of Geostatistics, good examples (best practices) to illustrate the power of the grids for spatial analysis are needed.
A formal organisation of NSI’s
We need a formal organisation for the EFGS

6. New Disaggregation strategy
Concerns WP2 and WP4 Tasks:
A dedicated task to support a post- Corine pan European initiative
Efforts to substitute crude Corine data with a better dataset (GMES, Harmonised European map dataset (ca. 1:25000 ?)
A dedicated Task to support National Grid initiatives.
Projects to support the development of km grid datasets based on the each countrys special conditions
A methodological Project to handle ”mixed mode” harmonisation challenges

7. 2. A Distributed webb Portal
Concerns WP3 and WP4:
We are producing visions for Portal, Metadata, WSS and and a business model.
We need to establish the embryo for an Portal with ESS om the EFGS website (
Use of Open source solutions for:
WMS to show large grid datasets (difficult)
Maps, diagrams, tables as well as narratives with references
Meatadata for statistics in general and spacifically for geostatistics
Dedicate schema for statistics, INSPIRE schema for maps (?)
Illustrations , Case studies(demonstrations)

8. 3. A Set of good Illustrations
Concerns WP4 (DDE)
A set of good illustrations
Presented as a set of unified Posters, a set of slides and a webb presentation
Examples
Manmade: Urban studies (Inner differentiations, outer delineations)
Day vs. Nighttime populations, travel to work patterns, commuter regions etc.
Natural: Coastal areas (Interaction between Sea and land)
Access to waterfronts, Pollution of rivers, lakes and waterfronts, eutrophication etc.
Sociocultural: Quality of life studies
Economic: Business and industrial clusters.

9. 4. A formal organisation for EFGS
Concerns the whole project
Formalized link between NSI’s and Eurostat
To serve as a professional reference group in all issues related to geo.statistics
Contents.
Mandate from NSI’s
Statistical offices and public institutions as primary fee paying members
Individuals and businesses secondary members
An EFGS office and a dedicated Webbsite
Portal for access to datasets, Project reporting, Discussion goups, Links etc.
Organised Expert groups
Channel to publish articles, reports and presentation of Geostatistics

10. Conclusions Priorities: The new approach to disaggregation
To have the essential components for a whole solution in place for the first iteration by February 2011
The new approach to disaggregation
Tasks and deliverables for WP2 and WP4
Concrete solutions for WSS on the EFGS portal
Tasks and deliverables for WP3 and WP4
A set of good examples for DDE
A new WP5
Formalisation of the EFGS
The whole project

11. Lars H. Backer