Issues of Scale and Uncertainty in the Global Remote Sensing of Disease

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2006, Pages 79-118

  Atkinson, P M ^a   Graham, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE VECTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY;

EID: 33646158685     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(05)62003-9     Document Type: Review

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