Remote sensing and human health: New sensors and new opportunities

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 217-227

  Beck, Louisa R ^a   Lobitz, Bradley M ^b   Wood, Byron L ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRACUNCULIASIS; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REMOTE SENSING; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0034130635     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0603.000301     Document Type: Review

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