A real-time platform for monitoring schistosomiasis transmission supported by Google Earth and a web-based geographical information system

Geospatial Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-203

  Yang, Kun ^a,b   Sun, Le Ping ^a,b   Huang, Yi Xin ^a,b   Yang, Guo Jing ^a,b   Wu, Feng ^a,b   Hang, De Rong ^a,b   Li, Wei ^a,b   Zhang, Jian Feng ^a,b   Liang, Yong Sheng ^a,b   Zhou, Xiao Nong ^b,c  

^a JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Early warning system; Geographical information system; Google Earth; People's Republic of China; Real time surveillance; Remote sensing; Schistosomiasis; Spatio temporal epidemiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861014754     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2012.137     Document Type: Article

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