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Geospatial Statistics and Issues in Energy Modeling

Workshop Agenda
May 10-11, 2005

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Topics, participants, and copies of the applicable presentations are listed below:

Day 1:
9:00-9:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks - Scott Hassell, DOE

9:10-9:30 Introductions and program overview - D. Arent, NREL (PDF 764 KB)

9:30-10:15 GIS Data Manipulation and Economic Modeling: Issues and Examples. - Liz Brady-Sabeff, Donna Heimiller, Anelia Milbrandt, Ray George, NREL (PDF 3.6 MB)

10:15-11:15 Overview of geospatial and spatio-temporal statistics, Statistical spatial and spatio-temporal modeling - J. Stewart, G. Johannsen, LLNL (PDF 13.8 MB)

Spatial Data Analysis and Example problems: Missing data, Coarse-to-fine scale transformation, Map merging, Aerial and point data merging.

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:15 Key Take Away Guidelines and Discussion
Use of geospatial statistics to determine appropriate scale for modeling.
12:15-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:30 Guest Speaker - Tim Johnson, EPA
Energy Modeling Efforts at EPA R&D (PDF 580 KB)

1:30-2:00 Disaggregation of Energy Demand - C. Marnay, J. Edwards, LBNL (PDF 3.8 MB)

2:00-2:30 GIS modeling of future energy systems: Research at the UC Davis H2 Pathways Program - Nils Johnson, UC Davis (PDF 16.8 MB)

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-3:30 Review of geospatial scale investigation of demand sector impacts - Mark Bernstein , RAND

3:30- 4:30 Discussion & Issues

4:30 Adjorn

Evening Optional team dinner - Location TBD

Day 2:
9:00- 10:00 Overview of Geospatial Statistical software tools, pros/cons and recommendations - J. Stewart, G. Johannsen, LLNL (PDF 1.4 MB)

10:00- 10:15 Break

10:15- 11:00 Guest Presentation on data sets and discussion of possible collaborations - Paul Stackhouse, NASA (PDF 16.2 MB)

11:00- 12:00Summary, Feedback, Next Steps

 

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