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Title | ||
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Remote Sensing and GIS for Identifying and Monitoring the Environmental Factors Associated with Vector-borne Disease: An Overview |
Abstract | ||
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The deterioration of ecology environment has proved to induce various vector-borne diseases directly or indirectly. The diseases and epidemic situations erupted recently have a robust relationship with the worsening of environment conditions. Vector-borne diseases are plaguing much of the world, though some remarkable achievements have been gained in the battle against vector-borne diseases. The threats to the public health from vector-borne diseases are at least as important now as at any time in history, especially in developing countries. Most of the vector-borne diseases are associated with specific environmental factors. Control of vector-borne diseases requires the knowledge of the ecology of habitats and breeding sites of vectors, and understanding the life cycles of vectors and pathogens. The past few years have seen a rapid development in spatial information technologies represented by 3S (GIS, RS, GPS), which are suitable for identifying and monitoring environmental targets associated with vector-borne diseases. Combined with other mathematical analysis toolboxes, spatial information technologies provide a new powerful solution to analyzing and predicting the spatial-temporal patterns of vector- borne diseases, which will be helpful for risk assessment and disease prevention. This article gives a general review of the major environmental factors, including climate factor, land use/land cover, hydrologic factor and terrain factor, and analyses briefly the mechanism of each factor acting on vector-borne diseases, then summarizes the major achievements of related work on identifying and monitoring the environmental factors with remote sensing and geographic information system. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2006 | 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.372 | IGARSS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
pathogens,remote sensing,land cover,gps,diseases,land use,terrain factor,geographic information systems,gis,health hazards,habitats ecology,public health,ecology environment deterioration,vector-borne disease prevention,environmental science computing,vectors breeding sites,mathematical analysis toolboxes,risk assessment,risk management,environmental factors monitoring,climate factor,epidemic situations,spatial-temporal patterns,hydrologic factor,environmental factor,geographic information system,vector-borne disease,developing country,vector borne disease,life cycle,spatial information,mathematical analysis | Public health,Spatial analysis,Geographic information system,Vector (epidemiology),Computer science,Remote sensing,Risk assessment,Risk management,Land cover,Land use | Conference |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
null | null | 2153-6996 |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-7803-9510-7 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenhua Zeng | 1 | 136 | 14.83 |
| Xia Cui | 2 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Xiangnan Liu | 3 | 79 | 20.45 |
| Haishan Cui | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Ping Wang | 5 | 227 | 10.26 |