Satellite observations and malaria: new opportunities for research and applications

MC Wimberly, KM de Beurs, TV Loboda, WK Pan - Trends in parasitology, 2021 - cell.com
Satellite remote sensing provides a wealth of information about environmental factors that
influence malaria transmission cycles and human populations at risk. Long-term …

Earth observation, geographic information systems and Plasmodium falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa

SI Hay, JA Omumbo, MH Craig, RW Snow - Advances in parasitology, 2000 - Elsevier
This review highlights the progress and current status of remote sensing (RS) and
geographical information systems (GIS) as currently applied to the problem of Plasmodium …

Remote sensing and human health: new sensors and new opportunities.

LR Beck, BM Lobitz, BL Wood - Emerging infectious diseases, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the launch of Landsat-1 28 years ago, remotely sensed data have been used to map
features on the earth's surface. An increasing number of health studies have used remotely …

Landscape ecology and epidemiology of vector-borne diseases: tools for spatial analysis

U Kitron - Journal of medical entomology, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing,
and spatial statistics are tools to analyze and integrate the spatial component in …

Predicting malaria seasons in Kenya using multitemporal meteorological satellite sensor data

SI Hay, RW Snow, DJ Rogers - Transactions of the royal society of tropical …, 1998 - Elsevier
This article describes research that predicts the seasonality of malaria in Kenya using
remotely sensed images from satellite sensors. The predictions were made using …

A simplified model for predicting malaria entomologic inoculation rates based on entomologic and parasitologic parameters relevant to control

GF Killeen, FE McKenzie, BD FOY… - … American journal of …, 2000 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Malaria transmission intensity is modeled from the starting perspective of individual vector
mosquitoes and is expressed directly as the entomologic inoculation rate (EIR). The …

Predicting key malaria transmission factors, biting and entomological inoculation rates, using modelled soil moisture in Kenya

JA Patz - Tropical Medicine & International Health, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
While malaria transmission varies seasonally, large inter‐annual heterogeneity of malaria
incidence occurs. Variability in entomological parameters, biting rates and entomological …

From predicting mosquito habitat to malaria seasons using remotely sensed data: practice, problems and perspectives

SI Hay, RW Snow, DJ Rogers - Parasitology Today, 1998 - cell.com
Remote sensing techniques are becoming increasingly important for identifying mosquito
habitats, investigating malaria epidemiology and assisting malaria control. Here, Simon Hay …

Modeling the spatial distribution of mosquito vectors for West Nile virus in Connecticut, USA

MA Diuk-Wasser, HE Brown… - Vector-Borne & …, 2006 - liebertpub.com
The risk of transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) to humans is associated with the density of
infected vector mosquitoes in a given area. Current technology for estimating vector …

[PDF][PDF] Application of geographical information systems and remote sensing technologies for assessing and monitoring malaria risk

P Ceccato, SJ Connor, I Jeanne, MC Thomson - Parassitologia, 2005 - fe-lexikon.info
Despite over 30 years of scientific research, algorithm development and multitudes of
publications relating Remote Sensing (RS) information with the spatial and temporal …