Remote Sensing of Climatic Anomalies and West Nile Virus Incidence in the Northern Great Plains of the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Chuang, Ting Wu ^a,b   Wimberly, Michael C ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CULICIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84867163145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046882     Document Type: Article

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