Spatial Statistics publishes articles on the theory and application of spatial and spatio-temporal statistics. It favours manuscripts that present theory generated by new applications, or in which new theory is applied to an important practical case. A purely theoretical study will only rarely be accepted. Pure case studies without methodological development are not acceptable for publication.
Spatial statistics concerns the quantitative analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data, including their statistical dependencies, accuracy and uncertainties. Methodology for spatial statistics is typically found in probability theory, stochastic modelling and mathematical statistics as well as in information science. Spatial statistics is used in mapping, assessing spatial data quality, sampling design optimisation, modelling of dependence structures, and drawing of valid inference from a limited set of spatio-temporal data. Application fields include
The physical domains, e.g. agriculture, geology, soil science, hydrology, ecology, mining, oceanography, forestry, air quality, remote sensing
The social/economic domains, e.g. spatial econometrics, epidemiology and disease mapping.

Editor in Chief
Alfred Stein
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Email Alfred Stein
Associate Editors
Alan Gelfand
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States Email Alan Gelfand
Jorge Mateu
University Jaume I Department of Mathematics, Castellon, Spain Email Jorge Mateu
Sujit Sahu
University of Southampton School of Mathematics, Southampton, United Kingdom Email Sujit Sahu
Christien Thiart
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Email Christien Thiart
Editorial Board Members
Denis Allard
French National Institute for Agricultural Research Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Avignon cedex 9, France
Peter Atkinson
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Patrick Bogaert
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Sytze de Bruin
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Sandra De Iaco
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Mahmoud Reza Delavar
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Ana Fernandez-Militino
Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
Andrew O. Finley
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Marie-Josée Fortin
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Reinhard Furrer
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Edith Gabriel
Avignon University, Avignon, France
Yong Ge
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Pierre Goovaerts
BioMedware, Jerome, Michigan, United States
Daniel Griffith
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States
Tomislav Hengl
ISRIC World Soil Information, Wageningen, Netherlands
Janine Illian
University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics, St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Phaedon Kyriakidis
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece
Murray Lark
University of Nottingham School of Biosciences, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Gregoire Mariethoz
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Raquel Menezes
University of Minho Department of Mathematics and Applications Guimaraes, Guimarães, Portugal
Werner G. Mueller
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
Gerhard Navratil
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
Douglas Nychka
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Frank. B Osei
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Emilio Porcu
Federico Santa Maria Technical University, Valparaiso, Chile
Maria Delores Ruíz-Medina
University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Paul Sampson
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Aila Särkkä
Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden
Marian Scott
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomGavin Shaddick
University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Wenzhong Shi
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Stehman
State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States
Michael Stein
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Radu Stoica
Élie Cartan Institute of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France
Jinfeng Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States