A web-based geospatial toolkit for the monitoring of dengue fever

Applied Geography

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-152

  Delmelle, Eric M ^a   Zhu, Hongmei ^b,d   Tang, Wenwu ^a   Casas, Irene ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated kernel density estimation; Dengue fever; Space time query; Spatial point patterns; Web GIS

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; DENGUE FEVER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GIS; MAPPING; MONITORING; SPATIAL DATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CALI; COLOMBIA; VALLE DEL CAUCA;

EID: 84902006307     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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