This book is a revision of Random Point Processes written by D. L.
Snyder and published by John Wiley and Sons in 1975. More emphasis is
given to point processes on multidimensional spaces, especially to pro-
cesses in two dimensions. This reflects the tremendous increase that has
taken place in the use of point-process models for the description of
data from which images of objects of interest are formed in a wide
variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. A new chapter,
Translated Poisson Processes, has been added, and several of the
chapters of the fIrst edition have been modifIed to accommodate this new
material. Some parts of the fIrst edition have been deleted to make
room. Chapter 7 of the fIrst edition, which was about general marked
point-processes, has been eliminated, but much of the material appears
elsewhere in the new text. With some re- luctance, we concluded it
necessary to eliminate the topic of hypothesis testing for point-process
models. Much of the material of the fIrst edition was motivated by the
use of point-process models in applications at the Biomedical Computer
Labo- ratory of Washington University, as is evident from the following
excerpt from the Preface to the first edition. "It was Jerome R. Cox,
Jr., founder and [1974] director of Washington University's Biomedical
Computer Laboratory, who ftrst interested me [D. L. S.