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Network for a European Forest Information Service (NEFIS)

WP 4: EFI data sets

Solsona, 22.03.04Andreas Schuck

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EFI Data sets

• Long term forest resources data 1950-1990 (LTFRdb) (note: TBFRA 2000 is also available under LTFRAdb at EFI)

• EU socio economic data

• Forest products and trade flow data 1962-2001(2002)

• Forest Research Capacities in Europe (18 countries)

• optional: Database on Forest Disturbances in Europe

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All data sets are available through the WWW data is in SQL database Interface programmed in PHP most data can be extracted in .CSV extraced results from all db’s are query based

Data availibility

Data format statistical datasets text based (metadatabase)

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Data structure

• Relational database structures

• Each db has its own individual structure based on the given data

• Example forest products trade flow data

Data

ID

reporting country

partner country

year

....

Country

ID

name

....

Country group

ID

name

....

Country group member

Group ID

Country ID

Product

ID

name

....

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Interface – LTFRAdb (1)

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Interface Forest Products Trade Flow db

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Regional forest resource and socio-economic statistics in European Union countries (db)

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Forest research capcities in 18 European countries

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Polygon maps

Problem with time series (change of country borders); What would be a technical solution (Sergey; Simo)

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Is the visualisation toolkit sufficient for your purposes?

Generally speaking : yes

Time series:

EFIS VTK did not fully satisfy in particular with regards to time series; Recent version of CommonGIS has many advanced features in particular in working with time series

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Further features that should be included?

Metadata display as ‘pop-up’ window should be always available when working with datasets

Print options? Polygon map building (in particular related to time series data) Options for loading different data sets into the

EFIS/CommonGis (e.g. socio economic data and forest resources or trade data from two individual data sources for use in one application)

Edit function for attribute names System allows to calculate new values and display or use

them for further processing; function for extracting all values to other programme (e.g. excel)?