Introduction

What are point processes?

In short: A point process is a model of spatial information. Other than areas (such as countries on a map) or pixel grids (such as color values of am digital image), a point processes are encoded

This information is encoded as points existing in space, with each data point having a coordinate position and a label or value assigned to it.

There exist a fer Spatial information can be encoded in many different ways. We can define areas and assign them classes or values. We can A point process is a statistical framework of one way to handle spatial information: