1. Introduction Practical information
A proposal
Against the background of the seven hypotheses presented in this document, the European Forum for Geostatistics (EFGS), under a generous grant from EUROSTAT, have from the beginning of this year started work on the GEOSTAT ESSnet project. The project consortium of nine NSI’s is led by Statistics Norway. The need to take action for the integration of geography and statistics should not be limited to the European scale.
We therefore propose:
The establishment of a Global Forum For Geostatistics (GFGS) to serve as a professional reference group (PRG) for Geostatistics and provide a professional link between UN and the NSI’s in issues related to this field.. This PRG will primarily be concerned with questions related to the integration of geography (GSDI projects) and statistics (GEOSTAT)
The initiation of a joint UN spatial data infrastructure (SDI) project for geostatistics. This is the first step towards a GSDI based Global Integrated Information System (GGIISS) and should be developed in close cooperation with the national mapping agency (NMA) -led GSDI and INSPIRE projects.
The initiation of the GEOSTAT GSSgrid project to provide a high-resolution harmonised infrastructure for geostatistics liberated from administrative areas and demonstrating its power and utility through a UN project to plot the global population on km grids.
Keywords: GSDI (Global Spatial Data Infrastructure), GSS (Global Statistical System), Small area statistics, GIS (Geographical Information System), GGIISS (Global Geographic Integrated Information Systems of Systems)
Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch
MSc Resourcs Geography and Landscape Ecology
Statistics Norway
460 Construction and service statistics
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ESTP course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS):
Use of GIS for making statistics in a production environment
Statistics Norway, Oslo, 26th to 30th of March 2012
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2. Practical information
Participants
Lecturers
The programme
Get to know each other

3. Statistical Business Process Model
Develop
and
design 2
Build 3
Collect 4
Process 5
Analyse 6
Disseminate 7
Specify
needs 1

4. Monday, March 26 Monday, March 26
Modul: Introduction to GIS, Geostatistics, INSPIRE, Business model
A01
09: :30
Opening.
Mr Olav Ljones
A02
09: :00
Introduction and practical information.
Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch
A03
Introduction to EFGS.
Mr Lars Henrik Backer
11: :15
Break
A04
11: :00
General introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its use in NSI. Ms Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu
12: :00
Lunch
A05
13: :30
INSPIRE : Data, metadata and tools.
Mr Ekkehard Petri
14: :45
A06
14: :15
Business models and geostatistics.
Mr Erik Sommer
16:15
Sightseeing at the Opera house
18:30
Statistics Norway gives a get together dinner

5. Tuesday, March 27 Tuesday, March 27
Modul: Experience sharing, geostatistical units and introduction to software
B01
09: :00
Bulgaria - Sharing experience. Ms Irena Dudova
B02
Croatia - Sharing experience. Mr Branko Crkvencic
B03
Denmark - Sharing experience. Ms Birgit Nielsen
B04
EU - Sharing experience. Mr Oliver Heiden and Mr Solène Larue
B05
Finland - Sharing experience. Ms Nicola Brun
B06
Germany - Sharing experience. Ms Melanie Bodenseh and Ms Halina Stepien
B07
Hungary - Sharing experience. Ms Karolina Barth
B08
Ireland - Sharing experience. Ms Fiona O’Callaghan
B09
Italy - Sharing experience. Ms Pina Grazia Ticca, Ms Marianna Mantuano and Mr Stefano Mugnoli
B10
Norway - Sharing experience. Ms Ida Skivenes and Mr Tekie Tesfagaber Ghebre
B11
Poland - Sharing experience. Mr Marek Pieniążek
B12
Romania - Sharing experience. Mr Vîrdol Daniel
B13
Slovakia - Sharing experience. Mr Ondrej Zahn
B14
Slovenia - Sharing experience. Ms Simona Klasinc, Mr Matjaž Jeran and Mr Mojca Merc
B15
Spain - Sharing experience. Mr Ignacio Duque Rodriguez
B16
Sweden - Sharing experience. Mr Florian Stamm
B17
Turkey - Sharing experience. Ms Şeyma Özcan Yavuzoğlu

6. Tuesday, March 27 Tuesday, March 27
Modul: Experience sharing, geostatistical units and introduction to software
12: :00
Lunch
B18
Introduction to geo-statistical units.
Mr Oliver Heiden
14: :15
Break
B19
Types of classifications (function/purpose) and their field of application. Classification tools. Mr Oliver Heiden
B20
Introduction to OS GIS desktop software gvSIG and GI services.
Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch

7. Wednesday, March 28 Wednesday, March 28
Modul: Data capture, spatial analyses and methods of grid statistics harmonisation
C01
09: :30
Hands-on practice "Basic functions of gvSIG".
Ms Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu
10: :45
Break
C02
10: :15
Data capture in production of geostatistics.
C03
11: :45
Data quality and coverage.
Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch
11: :45
Lunch
C04
12: :45
Hands-on exercise: Assessing the data quality and coverage.
C05
13: :15
Methods of producing grid statistics and methods used to harmonise statistics on grid.
C06
14:
Introduction to spatial analyses and tools.
C07
15: :45
Hands-on exercise: Spatial analyses.

8. Thursday, March 29 Thursday, March 29
Modul: Web GIS and data dissemination
D01
09: :30
Georeferencing.
Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch
D02
9: :00
Hands-on exercise: Georeferencing.
10: :15
Break
D03
10: :00
Hands-on exercise: Spatial analyses continues.
Ms Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu
12: :00
Lunch
D04
13: :30
Introduction to the web GIS: Dissemination of results, maps and figures.
Mr Ola Erik Nordbeck
D05
13: :00
Hands-on exercise: Dissemination.
15:00
Spare time at the participants’ own disposal

9. Friday, March 30 Friday, March 30
Modul: Geostatistical Units. Trends and research in GIS. Summing up the ESTP course
E01
09: :00
Hands-on exercise: Geostatistical units .
Mr Oliver Heiden
E02
10: :30
Trends and research.
Ms Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu
10: :45
Break
E03
10: :30
Summing up - Tour de Table.
Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch
E04
11: :00
Closing session - Evaluation of the course.
Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch / Ingvild Møller