Spatial Statistics 2011 - 1st Conference on Spatial Statistics 2011 (Spatial Statistics 2011)

The Spatial Statistics 2011 conference focuses on the role that spatial and spatio-temporal statistics plays in mapping global change. The goal is to bring together experts and interested people from academia, research institutes, and industry. The main conference themes are:

Mapping global change
-Visualization spatio-temporal variation
-Issues of scale
-Mapping quality and uncertainties

Spatial and spatio-temporal statistical methodology
- Geostatistics, Point patterns and Lattice analysis
- Bayesian procedures
- Issues of optimal sampling
- Extreme values and outlier detection

Environmental issues
- Temperature and rainfall
- Changes in soils, water and the air
- C-sequestration and carbon storage
- Forests and land use changes
- Changes in agriculture at different scales and resolutions
- Frontiers between agriculture and the environment

Ecological and habitat changes
- Biodiversity issues
- Changing frontiers in wildlife and vegetation distribution

Health and epidemiology
- Changing patterns due to global change
- Effects of globalization on health

Economy and energy
- Relations between global change and the economy
- Spatial econometrics

Image use and analysis
- Monitoring changes with satellite imagery
- Image analysis for remote areas
- Calibrating and validating time series of images

Developing countries
- Effects of global change on urbanization
- Consequences for rural development
- Relations to capacity building