1. Nordic Forum for Geo-Statistics 2007 meeting
Meeting of the Working Party
”Geographical Information Systems for Statistics”
Luxembourg, March 15-16, 2007

2. Nordic Forum for Geo-Statistics meeting 2007
will continue, as in Kongsvinger 2006, as a ’broadened’
European version of the annual seminars.
Time: September 2007
Host: Statistics Finland
Place: Statistics Finland, Helsinki

3. Welcome to the meeting Nordic NSIs and the European Grid Club members
Eurostat GI Working Party members

4. The objective of the Helsinki meeting
to discuss and exchange knowledge about new ways of exploiting geographic information in statistics, focus on methodology and good practices on
small area statistics and grid statistics
spatial databases
web map applications

5. The target group of the seminar
Experts in charge of developing the use of GI and geostatistical methods
in the production
in the dissemination

6. The provisional programme (draft)
Sessions
Session 1: Geostatistics in the INSPIRE and national frameworks
Session 2: Small area statistics and the European Grid Club
Session 3: GI infrastructure and the use of spatial database

7. Session 4: Poster session Session 5: Web map applications

8. Information on the meeting
call for presentations and posters
contact to session organisers before 15 May
presentations before 15 August
registration
before 15 August
other information

9. Welcome to Helsinki !
Statistics Finland