Geostatistics and Remote Sensing as Predictive Tools of Tick Distribution: A Cokriging System to Estimate Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Habitat Suitability in the United States and Canada from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Satellite Imagery

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 989-995

  Estrada Pena, Agustin ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Habitat suitability; Ixodes scapularis; Prediction; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ACARI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; NEARCTIC;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPACE FLIGHT; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CANADA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPACECRAFT; TICKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032198536     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/35.6.989     Document Type: Article

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