Using remote sensing to predict outbreaks of Oestrus ovis in Namibia

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 31-38

  Flasse, S ^a   Walker, C ^a,d   Biggs, H ^b,e   Stephenson, P ^c   Hutchinson, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b Private Bag 12022 ^*  (Namibia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Buchanan   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Degree day; Emergence prediction; Meteosat; Namibia; Oestrus ovis; Remote sensing; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLY; FORECASTING; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFESTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NAMIBIA; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT; TELECOMMUNICATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DIPTERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MALE; NAMIBIA; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SOFTWARE; SOIL; SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031614048     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(97)00056-1     Document Type: Article

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