Remote sensing and modeling of mosquito abundance and habitats in Coastal Virginia, USA

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2663-2681

  Cleckner, Haley L ^a   Allen, Thomas R ^a   Scott Bellows, A ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b REMSA Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Habitat suitability; Landsat; Mosquito borne disease; Tasseled cap transform; West nile virus

Indexed keywords

CHESAPEAKE; COASTAL PLAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; GEO-SPATIAL; HABITAT DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SUITABILITY; HABITAT SUITABILITY MODEL; LANDSAT; LIGHT TRAP; MOSQUITO SPECIES; MOSQUITO VECTORS; MULTISOURCES; POTENTIAL HABITAT; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL MODELING; TASSELED CAP; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VIRGINIA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84856761940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3122663     Document Type: Article

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