Applying GIS and high performance agent-based simulation for managing an Old World Screwworm fly invasion of Australia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 138, Issue , 2014, Pages 82-93

  Welch, M C ^a   Kwan, P W ^a   Sajeev, A S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Chrysomya bezziana; Computational modelling; General Purpose Graphic Processing Units; Geographical Information System; Old World Screwworm fly

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FLY; GIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PEST CONTROL; PEST OUTBREAK; PEST SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRYSOMYA; CLIMATE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTING ON GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLD WORLD SCREWWORM MYIASIS; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES INVASION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPTERA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT CONTROL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALIA;

CHRYSOMYA BEZZIANA;

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPTERA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907594575     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.03.021     Document Type: Article

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