Modeling Valley Fever incidence in Arizona using a satellite-derived soil moisture proxy

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 299-316

  Stacy, Patrick ^a   Comrie, Andrew ^a   Yool, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

COCCIDIOIDES; FUNGI; PIMA;

EID: 84858643226     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.49.2.299     Document Type: Article

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