Small-satellite synthetic aperture radar for continuous global biospheric monitoring: A review

SW Paek, S Balasubramanian, S Kim, O de Weck - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Space-based radar sensors have transformed Earth observation since their first use by
Seasat in 1978. Radar instruments are less affected by daylight or weather conditions than …

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 …

Satellite earth observation data in epidemiological modeling of malaria, dengue and West Nile virus: a scoping review

E Parselia, C Kontoes, A Tsouni, C Hadjichristodoulou… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Earth Observation (EO) data can be leveraged to estimate environmental variables that
influence the transmission cycle of the pathogens that lead to mosquito-borne diseases …

Automatic detection of open and vegetated water bodies using Sentinel 1 to map African malaria vector mosquito breeding habitats

A Hardy, G Ettritch, DE Cross, P Bunting, F Liywalii… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Providing timely and accurate maps of surface water is valuable for mapping malaria risk
and targeting disease control interventions. Radar satellite remote sensing has the potential …

Ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases in French Guiana: Transdisciplinarity does matter to tackle new emerging …

B de Thoisy, O Duron, L Epelboin, L Musset… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract French Guiana is a European ultraperipheric region located on the northern Atlantic
coast of South America. It constitutes an important forested region for biological conservation …

Sentinel-1&2 multitemporal water surface detection accuracies, evaluated at regional and reservoirs level

S Peña-Luque, S Ferrant, MCR Cordeiro, T Ledauphin… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Water stock monitoring is a major issue for society on a local and global scale. Sentinel-1&2
satellites provide frequent acquisitions to track water surface dynamics, proxy variables to …

A mapping review on urban landscape factors of dengue retrieved from earth observation data, GIS techniques, and survey questionnaires

R Marti, Z Li, T Catry, E Roux, M Mangeas… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
To date, there is no effective treatment to cure dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease
which has a major impact on human populations in tropical and sub-tropical regions …

Predicting distribution of malaria vector larval habitats in Ethiopia by integrating distributed hydrologic modeling with remotely sensed data

AL Jiang, MC Lee, G Zhou, D Zhong, D Hawaria… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Larval source management has gained renewed interest as a malaria control strategy in
Africa but the widespread and transient nature of larval breeding sites poses a challenge to …

Evaluating simulated RADARSAT constellation mission (RCM) compact polarimetry for open-water and flooded-vegetation wetland mapping

I Olthof, T Rainville - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
When severe flooding occurs in Canada, the Emergency Geomatics Service (EGS) is tasked
with creating and disseminating maps that depict flood extents in near real time. EGS flood …

Trend analysis of the decadal variations of water bodies and land use/land cover through MODIS imagery: an in-depth study from Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Z Zafar, MS Mehmood, MI Ahamad, A Chudhary… - Water …, 2021 - iwaponline.com
Water is a primary element for human life on Earth. Fresh water, which includes rivers, lakes,
streams, and ponds, contributes less than one thousandth of a percent of the total water on …