The European Forum for GeoStatistics (EFGS) is an interest organisation for people working or studying, or in any other way have an interest in geostatistics

Geostatistics

Geostatistics is a branch of statistics focusing on spatial or spatiotemporal datasets. Developed originally to predict probability distributions of ore grades for mining operations, it is currently applied in diverse disciplines including petroleum geology, hydrogeology, hydrology, meteorology,...

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Organisation

EFGS consists of a steering committee of national contact points, mainly persons with engagement in national statistical institutes. EFGS organises annual meetings that are open to all members and others by invitation or on request. EFGS attend the annual meetings of GISCO WP in Eurostat.

Objective

The general objective for EFGS is to harmonise data, methods and results related to national geostatistics, and to support user communities with relevant and reliable georeferenced information, with emphasis on socio-economic statistics.

Background

The origin of EFGS is the Nordic Forum for GeoStatistics, having its first meeting in Voss, Norway in 1998. In addition to the Nordic countries, Baltic countries were also invited to the annual meetings. It soon became clear that several other national statistical institutes had interests in geostatistical work, and that there was a need for harmonising statistical products with a geographical reference. The first meeting of EFGS took place in Kongsvinger, Norway, in 2006. The number of national contact persons have after that grown to include more and more countries. The Steering Committee consists of the national contact persons from the natiuonal statistical organisations that participate in the ESSnet project GEOSTAT 1A - Representing Census data in a European population grid, mainly funded by Eurostat

Eurostat

Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. Its main responsibilities are to provide the European Union with statistical information at European level and to promote the integration of statistical methods across the Member States of the European Union,...

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