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9 - Remote sensing, GIS and spatial statistics: powerful tools for landscape epidemiology

Summary

Acronyms

AATSR Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer

ADEOS Advanced Earth Observation Satellite

ALOS Advanced Land Observing Satellite

ARIES Australian Resource Information & Environment Satellite

ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission & Reflection Radiometer

AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AVIRIS dvanced Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer

AVNIR Advanced Visible & Near Infrared Radiometer

CBERS China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite

ENVISAT Environmental Satellite

EO-1 Earth Orbiter-1

ERS ESA (European Space Agency) Remote Sensing

ETM+ Enhanced Thematic Mapper (Landsat)

GLI Global Imager

IRS Indian Remote Sensing Satellite

LISS Linear Imaging Self Scanning System

MARA Mapping Malarial Risk in Africa

MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro Radiometer

MSS Multispectral Scanner

NOAA National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration

PAN Panchromatic

RS Remote Sensing

SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar

SPOT Système Pour l'Observation de la Terre

TM Thematic Mapper (Landsat)

WiFS Wide Field Scanner

XS Multispectral (SPOT)

Introduction

There has been much speculation about the potential impacts of climate change on the map of human health, particularly on the patterns of vector-borne diseases (e.g. Longstreth & Wiseman, 1989; WHO, 1990; Dobson & Carper, 1992; Shope, 1992; Kovats, 2000; Chapters 7 & 8). The impact of climate change on the transmission patterns of these diseases can be both direct (e.g. effect of changes in precipitation on populations of arthropod vectors) and indirect (e.g. human population dynamics and their effects on exposure risk, changes in vegetation, hydrology and other landscape features).

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