In this paper we present a survey on recent developments in the study of ambit fields and point out some open problems. Ambit fields is a class of spatio-temporal stochastic processes, which by its general structure constitutes a flexible model for dynamical structures in time and/or in space. We will review their basic probabilistic properties, main stochastic integration concepts and recent limit theory for high frequency statistics of ambit fields.

Keywords: Ambit fields, high frequency data, limit theorems, numerical schemes, stochastic integration.