Paper Info
Title
Software to Facilitate Remote Sensing Data Access for Disease Early Warning Systems.
Abstract
Satellite remote sensing produces an abundance of environmental data that can be used in the study of human health. To support the development of early warning systems for mosquito-borne diseases, we developed an open-source, client based software application to enable the Epidemiological Applications of Spatial Technologies (EASTWeb). Two major design decisions were full automation of the discovery, retrieval and processing of remote sensing data from multiple sources, and making the system easily modifiable in response to changes in data availability and user needs. Key innovations that helped to achieve these goals were the implementation of a software framework for data downloading and the design of a scheduler that tracks the complex dependencies among multiple data processing tasks and makes the system resilient to external errors. EASTWeb has been successfully applied to support forecasting of West Nile virus outbreaks in the United States and malaria epidemics in the Ethiopian highlands.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.07.006
Environmental Modelling and Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software architecture,Workflows,Remote sensing,Early warning,Malaria,West Nile virus
Data science,Warning system,Computer science,Remote sensing,Upload,Automation,Software,Environmental data,Software architecture,Data access,Software framework
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
74
C
1364-8152
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.53
8
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Liu192.32
Jiameng Hu261.31
Isaiah Snell-Feikema350.53
Michael S. Vanbemmel450.87
Aashis Lamsal550.87
Michael C. Wimberly6265.89