C Introduction to the Geostat project Session on User needs (Geostat workshop in Bled 1-3 october 2008) Lars H. Backer [email protected] [email protected].

CIntroduction to the Geostat project

Session on ”User needs”(Geostat workshop in Bled 1-3 october 2008)

Lars H. [email protected]

Statistics Sweden

Nordic Forum for GeoStatistics

European Forum for GeoStatistics

European GridClub

Subproject 1User needs

Both the target group and the whole

User needs

• Deductive– Top down (ad hoc) approach to design and implementation.– Suitable to describe large markets with a large number of

different actors whose needs are difficult to describe.

• Inductive– Bottom up approach to design and implementation.– Suitable to describe large markets with a limited number of

similar actors whose needs are difficult but possible to describe.

• Both and or Either or? – Apply both at the same time? Is that feasible?

Inspire as an IISS

• Link to List A• Link to List B

Reference objects

1,00 Reference objects

1,1 1,01 Geographical reference data annex 1

1,3 1,02 Geographical grids annex 1

3,2 1,03 Buildings (group)

3,21 1,03 Buildings (as a refence object)

3,3 1,04 Addresses annex 1

1,2 1,05 Geographical names annex 1

3,1 1,06 Properties (real estate units (cadestral parcels)) annex 1

2,6 1,07 Postal codes/Regions

2,2 1,08 Government management zones (reporting units)

2,1 1,09 Official administrative units (hierarchy of public authority) annex 1

2,3 1,10 Blocks, census and statistical districs (statistical (reporting) units) annex 3

2,4 1,11 Civil securty Units (as a reference unit)

6,2 1,12 Orthophoto-images annex 2

2,5 1,13 Environment management and reporting units annex 3

Environmental system (natural) 5,00 E2: Natural Environment (natural systems 1)

4,1 5,01 Terrestial elevation annex 2 4,2 5,02 Bathymetry annex 2 4,3 5,03 Coastline 6,1 5,04 Land cover annex 2 5,1 5,05 Soil annex 3 5,2 5,06 Bedrock geology annex 2 5,3 5,07 Geo-morphology annex 2

15,6 5,08 Geological resources (group) annex 3 8,2 5,09 Environmental protection facilities 9,5 5,10 Natural amenities (values)

10,2 5,11 Protected areas (group) annex 1 14,1 5,13 Bio-geographical regions annex 3 14,2 5,14 Vegetation 14,3 5,15 Habitats and biotopes annex 3 14,4 5,16 Species distribution annex 3 14,5 5,17 Landscape diversity 15,1 5,18 Ecosystem rescources 15,3 5,19 Agricultural land and soil resources (group) 15,4 5,20 Forest resources (group) 12,1 5,21 Surface water bodies /Hydrography networks (group) annex 1 12,2 5,23 Water catchments annex 1 12,3 5,24 Groundwater bodies aquifiers annex 1 15,2 5,25 Water resources (group) 13,1 5,26 Oceaniographic features annex 3 13,2 5,27 Sea regions annex 3 15,5 5,28 Fishery resources (group) 15,7 5,29 Energy resources 11,1 5,31 Air and atmospheric contitions annex 3 11,2 5,32 Metrological spatial features annex 3 11,3 5,33 Climate zones 16,1 5,34 Natural risk vulnerability zones annex 3

Environmental system (artificial)

4,00 E1: Built Environment (manmade systems 3)

9,1 4,02 Urban and rural settlements (group)

10,1 4,04 Land use plans

8,4 4,05 Agricultural and aquacultural facilities (group) annex 3

10,3 4,08 Area restriction/regulation zones (group) annex 3

8,3 4,13 Production facilities, industry annex 3

8,5 4,14 Trade and services facilities

17,3 4,15 Areas under intensive exploitation

7,1 4,16 Transport networks (group) annex 1

8,1 4,24 Transmission lines and pipelines (group)

8,11 4,24 Transmission lines and pipelines (information)

9,4 4,29 Cultural heritage (points and zones)

16,2 4,31 Technological risk vulerability zones

16,3 4,32 Technological accidents and natural disasters (group)

17,1 4,33 Polluted areas

17,2 4,35 Noise and Radiation zones

Sociocultural system

2,00 S1:Socio Cultural Systems (manmade systems 1)

9,2 2,01 Population distribution, demography (group) annex 3

9,3 2,02 Human health and safety (group) annex 3

Socioeconomic system

3,00 S2: Socio Economic Systems (manmade systems 2)

The users processes

• System starts and end with the recipient processes– User needs the start and end of every action

• Feedback Process– Capture data in indicators – Analyse results– Evaluate in relation to the systems project

• Forward process– Create scenarioes– Design a solution– Inplement the solution

• We as suppliers contribute to the feedback process– Mapping agencies and Statistical institutes

Conclusions

• Man- environmental systems consists of both virtual and real objects – Societies (sociocultural and economic systems) may generally not be

described with direct spatial reference– Environmental (natural and manmade systems) may generally be

described with direct spatial reference. • Real Objects

(may be described with direct spatial reference)– Objects with clear physical dimensions are well represented in the

Inspire List A– Natural environment– Manmade Environment

• Virtual Objects (may not be described with direct spatial reference)– Objects with no clear physical dimensions are poorly or not represented

in the Inspire List A– Sociocultural systems– Economic systems

Subproject 2User needs in terms of infrastructures of

dataAn infrastructure of spatial data

Spatial Data

• Spatial Data for descriptive geographies– Descriptive data in the focus of the INSPIRE initiative– Aggregations that stay relatively constant over time. Map

features in descriptive geographies are the results of previous analysis where the data connection is dropped.

– Used mainly as background reference

• Spatial Data for analytical geographies– Analytical data not in the focus of the INSPIRE initiative– Aggregations that change relatively fast. Map features in

analytical geographies are the result of analytical processes where the data connection is maintained.

– Needed for playing ”what if..”

Conclusions

• Slow processes– Environmental systems

• Topology– Socioeconomic systems

• Governance – We have an infrastructure to describe man- environmental systems in terms of

properties that change relatively slowly– These systems are only slowly influenced by human action

• Fast processes – Environmental systems

• Weather– Socioeconomic systems

• Stock Market– We have no proper infrastructure to describe man- environmental systems in terms

of properties that change relatively fast– These systems are relatively quickly influenced by human action

Subproject 3 User needs in terms of data

Infrastructures

Both web and data infrastructures

Network services

1. Web services to communicate the Narrative (digital documents)– Web pages (conventional HTML documents)

2. Web services to communicate Properties (Statistics)– Web statistical Services

• Maps

• Diagrams

• Tables

3. Web services to communicate Cartographies (Geodata)– Web map services

4. Web services to communicate information on key Reference literature (Reference library)– Web bibliography service

To describe man- environmental systems

(MES)• Societies:• Sociocultural system

– Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)– Properties (statistics)– Cartographies (geodata)– Reference literature (reference library)

• Economic system– Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents) – Properties (statistics)– Cartographies (geodata)– Reference literature (reference library)

• Environment:• Natural environment

– Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents) – Properties (statistics)– Cartographies (geodata)– Reference literature (reference library)

• Man-made environment– Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)– Properties (statistics)– Cartographies (geodata)– Reference literature (reference library)

To describe man-made environment

• Focus:• Man-made environment

1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Context:• Sociocultural system

1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Economic system1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents) 2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Natural environment1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents) 2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

To describeSociocultural systems

• Focus:• Sociocultural system

1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Context:• Man-made environment

1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Economic system1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Natural environment1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

To describeEconomic systems

• Focus:• Economic system

1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Context:• Man-made environment

1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Sociocultural system1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Natural environment1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

To describeNatural Environment

• Focus:• Natural environment

1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Context:• Man-made environment

1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Sociocultural system1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

• Economic system1. Narrative (digital and/or analogue documents)2. Properties (statistics)3. Cartographies (geodata)4. Reference literature (reference library)

Conclusions

1. All information systems to serve as a foundation for policies, programs, plans and projects for sustainable development must relate to dependable description of man-environmental systems from a holistic perspective

2. All Policies, Programs, Plans and Projects for sustainable development must consider its effects in terms of – its efficiency to meet the immediate objectives of the project.

– its consequences on the context as a whole.

3. There are two users / customers / recipients for all actions to be considered– The immediate customer in the focus of the action

(The market?)

– The men-environmental system as a whole (Public authorities)

Subproject 4 User needs in terms of

dissemination and exploitation

Data model

• Name, Class (Semantic concept)• Code (ID)• Implementing rule• Narrative (Reference to the datasets relation to user needs (web site or pdf document))

– Every dataset / theme its own website?– Metadata

• Attributes 1: Properties (Statistics (quantitative and qualitative data))– Tables

• Variable 1: time series in table columns• Variable 2: time series in table columns• Etc.

– Statistics metadata– Property dynamics

• Changes over time (dynamic model?)• Attributes 2: Features (cartographic information / geodata)

– Features– Metadata

• Attributes 3: Reference literature: Bibliographies (Reference database)• Object methods: Network services required

– Display map features– Display statistical table(s)– Display statistical diagram(s)– Display metadata

Integrated documentsof information types

DataThemeObjects described in space and time

1 Statistics 2. Features 3. Description 4. Reference

Population on km grids

Data: Yes

MetaData: Yes

Services: No

Data: Yes

MetaData: Yes

Services: No

Data: Maybe

MetaData: Maybe

Services: Yes

Data: Maybe

MetaData: Maybe

Services: Maybe

Grids Data: Yes

MetaData: Yes

Data: Maybe

MetaData: Maybe

Services: Yes

Data: Maybe

MetaData: Maybe

Services: Maybe

Population statistics Data: Yes

MetaData: Yes

Services: No

Data: Maybe

MetaData: Maybe

Services: Yes

Data: Maybe

MetaData: Maybe

Services: Maybe

Network Services

1. Properties (to obtain) +

2. Metadata (to search) +

3. Web statistical services (WSS)(to explore)

1. Map features (to obtain) +

2. Metadata (to search) +

3. Web map services (WMS)(to explore)

1. Text document (to obtain) +

2. Metadata (to search) +

3. Conventional Webpage services (WTS)(to explore)

1. Reference information (to obtain) +

2. Metadata (to search) +

3. Web reference services (WRS)(to explore)

Summary

Conclusions

• We need to bridge the gap– Bridge the gap between theory and practice

• We need to face large scale problems– Solutions must be scalable from local to global

• We need to be able to relate our specialist knowledge to a general context– Shift between seeing wholes and parts

• We need to observe systems as both “interacting wholes” and “kits of parts” – Both approaches are needed

• We need to trust the scientific method– Science is not about truth but about what works or not

Thank You!

The Geostat ProjectEuropean Forum for GeoStatistics

Statistics Sweden

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