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