Seasonal relationship between normalized difference vegetation index and abundance of the Phlebotomus kala-azar vector in an endemic focus in Bihar, India

Geospatial Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-62

  Bhunia, Gouri S ^a   Kesari, Shreekant ^a   Chatterjee, Nandini ^b   Mandal, Rakesh ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Das, Pradeep ^a  

^a RAJENDRA MEMORIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

India; Kala azar; Normalized difference vegetation index; Phlebotomus argentipes; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879093703     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2012.104     Document Type: Article

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