Assessing the relationship between environmental factors and malaria vector breeding sites in Swaziland using multi-scale remotely sensed data

Geospatial Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-98

  Dlamini, Sabelo Nick ^a,b   Franke, Jonas ^c   Vounatsou, Penelope ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c REMOTE SENSING SOLUTIONS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Larva scooping; Malaria; Remote sensing; Swaziland; Vector breeding

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; BREEDING; CLIMATE; DECISION TREE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LARVA; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SWAZILAND; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BREEDING; CLIMATE; DECISION TREES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALARIA; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SWAZILAND; WATER;

EID: 84933048731     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2015.302     Document Type: Article

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