EDITORIAL

摘要

The first international conference on Spatial Statistics, to which the present issue of Procedia is dedicated, was held in Enschede (The Netherlands), from March 23 to 25, 2011 (http://www.spatialstatisticsconference.com/). This conference had as a general theme ‘Mapping global change’. It was jointly organized by the Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the Twente University, Wageningen University and the University of Muenster. More than 300 participants from over 30 countries providing more than 250 scientific presentations, attended this conference.